Background
When I look at the environment for me to get things done, when I just open my phone or computer, I'm presented with a screen withĀ plethora of apps or a URL bar that can take me anywhere. That's like trying to get work done inside of a mall where I'm sitting next to an Arcade, Auntie Anne's, a strip club.
On top of that, I have these notifications that get pushed to me. By default, the most frequent of these notifications serve the agenda of businesses that have created these apps.
Technology can powerfully pull for our attention and I donāt think thatās necessarily a bad thing. What if we could harness that power and put it in the hands of our higher selves.
In One Sentence
Intention is an AI companion that keeps you intentional as you get things done.
In More Sentences
Imagine as you sit down at your computer, your AI companion asks you āWhat would you like to accomplish in this session?ā
You canāt open your browser or navigate to any URLS or even open any apps, you just simply are presented with this question, which you can speak out loud.
The conversation may look like this:
Companion: What would you like to accomplish in this session? Me: I want to finish writing this post for the blog Companion: Great! What are the specific achievements and results of this session? Me: I have fully written and shipped the blog post. Companion: How long would you like to have for this session? Me: Letās go until 2:30pm. Companion: What are the ways of being you embodied as you are writing this blog post? Me: Feeling excited and connected! Companion: Beautiful! Letās start with a 1 minute meditation. Go ahead and close your eyes and let your awareness be open and relaxedā¦ When youāre ready let me know what youāre going to do first Me: Ok, Iām going to first open up Notion and just start typing stream of consciousness Companion: Great! Me: Oh god, what if they hate this? Companion: Yeah, thereās something in you thatās worried that they wonāt like the blogpost. Me: Yeah. Iām feeling pretty nervous about it. Companion: Letās take a pause for a moment, and notice where you feel that in your body. Me: Itās in my stomach and I notice my head feels a bit tenseā¦
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Progress
Website Launched š
After starting to build the website friday evening, itās finally launched!
Wizard of Oz Sessions
- Iāve had 13 Wizard of Oz sessions with my wife and 1 Wizard of Oz session with a friend
Next Steps
- Take what youāve learned from the Wizard of Oz sessions and do some very basic paper prototyping it in Figma and begin to build it in the fastest, leanest way possible
- Continue to publish an update every 3 weeks
- More wizard of Oz Sessions