{"id":1881,"date":"2009-09-25T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2009-09-25T08:01:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:01:12","slug":"make-things-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/make-things-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Things Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often find myself thinking about how things could be improved in the world. How to make life easier, and more time efficient.\u00a0Let me give you an example.<\/p>\n

\"atm\"Have you ever been in a public restroom having to look under each stall to find an empty one? Why don’t they put the little \u201coccupied\u201d or \u201cnot occupied\u201d sign on the door handle of public restrooms like they do on air planes? You lock the door be hind you and the sign switches from un-occupied to occupied. It just seems like it would make sense and save time doing it that way.<\/p>\n

ATMs are kind of the same way. Up until I switched to my latest bank, just about every ATM I have ever used spits your money out before giving you your card back. I can’t tell you how often I have walked away from an ATM after taking my money and realizing all \u00a0to late that I forgot my ATM card. My latest bank spits out the ATM card before<\/span> the money. I am not going to leave an ATM with out my money. That’s why I went there\u00a0in the first place. But I will leave without my card because that is not where my mind is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often find myself thinking about how things could be improved in the world. How to make life easier, and more time efficient.\u00a0Let me give you an example. Have you ever been in a public restroom having to look under each stall to find an empty one? Why don’t they put the little \u201coccupied\u201d or … Continue reading “Make Things Smarter”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[235,232],"tags":[414],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qkdN-ul","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}