I kind of think to myself, “Is this picture worth a dollar?”
I don't shoot film anymore since about 15 years, it's totally not worth the hassle. However, I did stick to this mindset of first trying to figure out whether it's worth it overall and only then taking a picture (except when shooting plants/insects for later determination etc, then different metrics come into play). It has a lot of advantages for me, mainly because I really despise what the OP also does (shooting pretty much everything, taking x rounds of the same scene then figuring out the best one). Instead I end up with a sort of pre-curated list and then go through it once to delete what wasn't a good shot or turned out to not evoke any emotion whatsoever when seeing it again. Sure, I might miss something somewhere, but that still hurts a lot less then the mind-numbing and time-wasting alternatives.
I break out my TLR when someone has an interesting project that's well suited for it and I can bill them for it. My standing rate is 100/hr, one location, for film it's 200/hr. It's sort of a once a year thing nowadays, but, enjoyable. Takes me back to being a starving college kid doing this professionally, running around outside like a wild man capturing images for rent money.
It's a good balance now really, because doing dev management is far more lucrative, and I can afford to take the gigs that I want to take instead of taking every gig offered.
It is true though, bringing the film shoot intentionality to the digital world is the correct mindset, and sure modern digital can rip through 14 frames a second, but, if your moment happened at frame 8.5, you still can miss it, and are rewarded with 10-20x the amout of hard disk space to comb through hoping for a keeper.
I think one of the keys if you're going to do burst shooting of sports, concerts, even speakers is that you really have to do a quick rough cull that deletes most of the photos. For these kinds of things I do find bursting really helps get the best shots. (Yeah, you need to be setup as best you can but with dynamic motion you can't help but have a lot of duds.)
Yes, I use the chase jarvis method, run though and star everything that's usable first, purge zero stars, then run through and 2 star a single image from a burst that is the best of the group. Purge. Then look at your keepers and pick your deliverables.
I don't shoot film anymore since about 15 years, it's totally not worth the hassle. However, I did stick to this mindset of first trying to figure out whether it's worth it overall and only then taking a picture (except when shooting plants/insects for later determination etc, then different metrics come into play). It has a lot of advantages for me, mainly because I really despise what the OP also does (shooting pretty much everything, taking x rounds of the same scene then figuring out the best one). Instead I end up with a sort of pre-curated list and then go through it once to delete what wasn't a good shot or turned out to not evoke any emotion whatsoever when seeing it again. Sure, I might miss something somewhere, but that still hurts a lot less then the mind-numbing and time-wasting alternatives.