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Most Work is Translation

Aparna Chennapragada · 12 Sept 2025

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  1. We tell ourselves we’re creating, building and executing, but when you zoom out, most of the day isn’t invention or execution. It’s TRANSLATION: taking something in one form and turning it into another form that someone else can act on.
  2. For the first time, the unit cost of translation is close to zero. Humans still need to and will provide judgment, taste, and accountability. But the blank-page tax that fills so much of modern work is close to zero.

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