I have been greatly fascinated by observing small details that others seem to have no interest in via a microscope that intersects psychology, cognition, CX/UX and technology and often have suggestions (mostly harmless/useless) that can help improve the status quo. Over the last 7 years, I have corralled a large collection of such ideas — some of which have actually proven to be useful and are actually implemented to a positive impact, albeit on a modest scale.

People whose blogs I read regularly include Seth Godin, Rajendra Dhandapani and Naval Ravikant and I have learnt a lot from each of them — brevity and cutting to the chase by Seth Godin, building a scaffold of multi-disciplinary mental models. I thought it best to make a start — hopefully improve as we go along. I hope you find this interesting — do DM me any criticisms/comments. I named it Occam’s intuition — meaning of all the things your mind can cognite, what intuitive thinking would improve it with the least effect

There’s no one who has not been scaled by squirting hot water or shell shocked by cold water in the showers in the bathroom and I always wonder why you wont have a simple sticker below the bathroom that says “ hot water on the left/right”. While some of the showers have red/blue markings, most people tend to rely on muscle memory and turn it based on the way they are accustomed to in their home bathrooms with the result that the action that causes scalding at home is freezing in a hotel and vice-versa

a. Why not just have a pointed arrow in each direction (potentially could be an indent or an add-on water proof sticker as an after thought) with a clear “HOT” and “ COLD” written on it (with steam and ice as tropes) on both the faucet and on the shower.

b. or a tougher solution would be to allow for a two stage turn of the tap (when you turn with full force first time it only goes half way) in either direction which would allow the bath-er to get comfortable before turning up the wick further. — so that the temperature stays in the goldilocks zone. Of course, this would mean a higher engineering cost but like it happens with car doors, it can be a more fool-proof solution.

Let me know what you think

PS ; The quality should improve from tommorow. Like an auto rickshaw with a pull-up start, this post had a lot of misfirings.