tal shortcuts and cognitive burden //
I used to drive to Boston every week for about 200 miles.
My subconscious learned that if I stayed behind a couple of trucks, it was possible to drive for four hours with little conscious effort.
We make decisions every day. These decisions require energy and effort.
Our digital habits are important. We don’t need to save five or ten seconds a day. Instead, we want to avoid making a few hundred insignificant decisions that disrupt our flow.
If you are using a password manager instead of having to create a unique password for every service you use, your workload is reduced.
You won’t have to waste time trying to determine which version is the latest if you use a file-naming system. Each version has a number from 1 to X. The most recent file will always have the highest number in front of its name.
You won’t waste time navigating through folders if you create shortcuts in the sidebar of your file finder.
The Yahoo logo was the most-clicked-on button (which didn’t do anything on the homepage) and “Yahoo” was the most-searched-for term. People hadn’t yet figured out bookmarks or were content to keep clicking until they found something that worked.
You can save yourself 30 decisions a day by taking 10 minutes today.
