Checklists are stupid. Using them can make you feel like you're following a stupid set of obvious rules. Having to demonstrate that you followed a checklist see

Checklists are stupid. Using them can make you feel like you're following a stupid set of obvious rules. Having to demonstrate that you followed a checklist seems childish. ... but you know what? Time and again, they are proven to work. Hospitals use them, airlines use them. They allow you to off-load some mental processing and give you some CYA. We use them for multi-step manual deployments. Checklists work. Use them!