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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There's also the huge space of self- improvement tech (exercise, nutrition, spending, learning). Maybe one limit on effectiveness is that the apps are domain specific, and there's no unified view of the competing demands on time/money/energy ? Or maybe psychology is just hard :)
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Right! Impulses:
1. Some of that tech *does* work well! Let's have more.
2. Part of the possibility space may require OS-level support?
3. Part of the p-space may require (something like) end-user programming?
4. Maybe only some regions of p-space can capture value it creates?