Design.

I'm fascinated with design.  From how a house can be designed and built to how a pen can be tweaked so it will sell better.  Other than cars, all aspects of design I find intriguing.  There is so much free information out there I don't why some things are done inefficiently.  Except for this little bookstore I visited today.

This little shop was obviously around to make money yet they made it easy for a bibliophile to wander around and browse books.  What kind of book are you looking for; I couldn't tell you where it is because the shelves weren't really tagged that well.  Most of the time that kind of thing would bother me, but not in a bookstore for some reason.

Another bookstore I was in years ago was a maze.  The owner actually put tape on the floor with arrows and sections written on it.  You want to find mysteries?  look for the tape with mysteries written on it and follow the arrows.  You want to buy your books?  go away from the arrows.  At the hospital where my first two children were born they could have used the same system.  My wife had just delivered our child a few hours before and she and the kid are sleeping so I try to find my way to the cafeteria to eat something.  I ask some nurses where it is and they say that it's too hard to explain so one of them will take me there.  She took me the "easy" way and since I couldn't find my way back I just went outside and went around the building.

In a hospital that annoys but in a bookstore it leads me on literary adventures.