There totally is a tradeoff between productivity and discipline. People naturally 'optimize' their workflows - which is usually a good thing. The problem is o

There totally is a tradeoff between productivity and discipline. People naturally 'optimize' their workflows - which is usually a good thing. The problem is our pattern recognition sucks at identifying subtleties like the correlation between skipping washing our hands and more patients developing infections. Technology can help here a bit. I don't have a checklist item to 'check hard drive space' - I have automated monitoring and alerting systems. But if I didn't you bet I'd be moaning and rationalizing while I shouldn't have to log into each system every hour to verify it had free space, free-able memory, low IO, etc. Which is why I work with computers instead of newborn babies. Much easier to automate.