Mouse Addiction, or Why Accelerator Keys Suck

It's funny, even though I have been using xmonad for a while now and can move between windows faster by keeping my hands on the keyboard, I still instinctively reach for the mouse pretty often. I'd unplug the dang thing but I still need it for web browsing and general web-app usage.

This is why I think the idea of accelerator keys is ultimately a failure: once a common task has been trained into muscle memory using the mouse, it's actually harder to replace that skill with the faster way of doing it (the keyboard) than it would have been to just suck it up and learn the faster way (the keyboard) in the first place.

Learning how to play a musical instrument the wrong way leads to the same problems if my experience with the guitar is any reliable indication.