Now, Together
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Had to deal with this recently after trying everything to stick to my world view of “anyone can learn this”.
Where if there is a lot of gruntwork that is plain toil and is unpleasant to do solo. I plan a time window in advance that a bunch of people get together to do that same work.
Gives team support to individual, gets the work done fast and makes it less unpleasant.