Yeah totally, I see this everywhere now, not just in shops. It's like we're cutting out the middle steps in everything. You see it with self-checkout, or how you fill out an online form once and it populates everywhere. The human touch just gets removed piece by piece, and people talk about it like it's always progress. Makes you wonder what skills we're quietly losing.

Forget the caffeine. Shut down all screens an hour before bed and just sit in the dark. Lets your brain actually switch off.

Last spring, our manager made us do a 20 minute call every Friday. It felt like a waste because we already updated our tasks in the system. @chen.olivia, that broken clock idea might fit here, but for us it just added more meetings. People started rushing through lists just to have something to say. The real work got pushed to late nights when we could focus. In the end, it killed our flexibility and made everyone resent the structure.