As I explained in the current podcast, I don’t think pedestrian crossing buttons are really attached to anything. They’re like pedestrian placebos. You push them thinking you’re going to take control of the traffic light but it’s a fake out. But we keep doing it. It’s like when the elevator takes too long, we push the button again to get its attention. We do stuff like that. We blow on the dice to get them to come up 7s, or we figure out your lottery ticket number by counting the number of push-ups you used to do and dividing by the number of friends who showed up at your New Year’s party, and multiplying it by the square root of the number of commercials per hour on your favorite cable channel. I think some bosses do the same thing with the thermostats in the office. They’re not really connected to anything. It’s like the artificial click on your digital camera. Mine goes crick because it was made in Japan.
