Hacker News Reader

Comment by monocasa | Hacker News Reader

I like what they do in the Japanese train system. You have to point at whatever you're doing and day aloud what it is before you check it off. That heavily reduces the amount of mindless checking via scanning the sheet that leads to items being checked off without being fully validated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

View on HN

I fly private planes as a hobby and during my training that practice was kinda grilled in to me. After flying for a bit, you end up realizing how easy it is to "see" something incorrectly, or to skip an item, etc. Even when there's no one else in the plane with me, I say things out let, touch nobs to confirm their position even though I checked it earlier and didn't touch the nob at all at any portion in the flight. (Good) Pilot training will make you aware of just how much trouble your mind can get you into.

Both of you have fat fingers.

I hope the landing gear isn't next to the ejection trigger.

In my defense downvoters, they both had typos, "day aloud" and "say things out let" and we're talking about pointing and touching dials here.

I got your back :)

Yes, I think it's frustrating that this is not widely adopted. The upsides are really obvious and the only downside (I guess?) is that it feels a bit awkward to do it before society has gotten used to it.

Another thing with obvious benefits I wish we would adopt from east Asia is wearing a face mask when having a cold to prevent infection those around you.

I imagine it also brings in a certain kind of kinesthetic memory into play, habits of movement rather than just habits of thinking.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com