We're surrounded every day by a series of defaults. These could be canned responses to texts and emails, or maybe the pre-filled in length of meetings on your electronic calendar.  Sometimes those shortcuts serve to save us time and energy, but at what cost to our actual goals?

This week, a short story, some examples of defaults in our lives, and a challenge for the coming week to identify the defaults impacting your life and goals, and to try changing a couple that aren't serving you well.

By the way, I didn't come up with the phrase "the devil is in the defaults", but it absolutely resonates with me and our increasingly tech supported lives.

For additional reflection on the phrase, here are earlier examples of its use and impact:

Mireille Hildebrandt wrote Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law about how smart technologies are recreating our daily world and the impact of our actions and morality.

Laurence Scott wrote The Four-Dimensional Human in the same year about our existence in the digital world.

And of course, a Google search will bring up a few more examples, law review articles, etc.

Please continue to send your ideas and feedback to [email protected].  Thanks for your support and have a great week!