Struck by a market-making provocation from today: "Imagine a world where you love how you make choices and you love how you're directing your attention, because tech inventors are competing to figure out how best to help you live as you intend."
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It's not clear how to align incentives so that this becomes a relevant design question for tech co's, but I'm enjoying the prompt. It's interesting that OSes have contacts, calendars, docs, etc—yet no representation of anything purposive, of ways of being, of "what matters?"
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Funny to contrast the ubiquitous to-do app's model with intentions which might deeply matter to someone, like "I want to make sure I'm taking my ideas as seriously as possible." Tasks are such a misleading way of thinking about intention. But hey, it's easier to build a to-do UI!
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I wonder for what % of people the key bottlenecks to “loving the way one makes choices” can be influenced by consumer products at all. For me, actually, I think they can be! But it’s easy to imagine the issue being, say, family / physical health / money / etc
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I actually have a research paper on this, positing that a "personal digital twin" - an algorithm that is designed for personal outcomes - could work with biz algos to optimize for everyone in the ecosystem.
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Sure, would be interested to read! Thank you. andy@andymatuschak.org
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I read recently that the Silicon Valley perspective of the world is that all problems need to be solved with products.
Even here in a dissenting voice, it’s seems like the suggestion is that the cure to consumerism is consumerism.
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I am working on exactly that with @EntireTask I’d love your thoughts. growthswell.link/ET-discovery