Stop Shooting Yourself in the Foot by Trying to be Hyper-Efficient

Recently, while writing out a “quick email” on my phone in a grocery checkout line, another checkout line opened nearby and I totally missed it.  Had I seen it, I could have been out of there several minutes earlier and back to my office typing out that email on my keyboard, where I can type at least 10x faster.

This experience made me wonder – in our quests to be hyper-efficient, how often are we shooting ourselves in the foot? A lot more often than we think…