Most people know what a molly guard is, even if they don’t know the name—it’s the plastic cover over an important button that forces you to be deliberate before you press it. Marcin Wichary flips the concept:

it’s also worth thinking of reverse molly guards: buttons that will press themselves if you don’t do anything after a while.

Think OS update dialogs that restart your machine after a countdown, or mobile setup screens that auto-advance. Wichary on why these matter:

There is no worse feeling than waking up, walking up to the machine that was supposed to work through the night, and seeing it did absolutely nothing, stupidly waiting for hours for a response to a question that didn’t even matter.

This is the kind of observation you only make after years of staring at buttons, as Wichary has.