The economics of automation syllabus
Understanding what is changing, with arithmetic instead of adjectives. Every lesson ends with a number about a task you already know.
Module 0 — What actually gets automated
Free, and enough on its own to change how you read the news about this.
- The task, not the job — Jobs are bundles of tasks with wildly different economics. Averaging them is how everybody gets this wrong. (20 min)
- The payback arithmetic — Four numbers decide it, and you can get all four in an afternoon. (25 min)
- Where the arithmetic stops working — Every model in this course has conditions. Knowing them is the difference between understanding and repeating. (20 min)