Is Something Wrong With My “Second Brain”?

Efficiency is overhyped and may, in fact, be damaging.

It may even harm our ability to think.

Consider how…

My father was a highly respected surgeon. Legends gathered and continue to follow him to this day, nearly a year since his passing.

I run into physicians who, upon learning I am his son, tell me of yet another wild story of how he saved the day in some difficult surgery, only to follow it up by running up five flights of stairs leaving much younger residents panting behind him.

Wh...