If AI can take on more of the work, what should a person’s day look like?
I keep thinking about the full twenty-four hours. What would we choose to do daily, and what would those activities build up over time?
When I think about routines, I reach for familiar examples like exercise and sleep. I have a much harder time articulating the equivalent for creativity, learning, or the way we build things. What does a useful daily loop look like there?
What carries forward?
I’ve been calling these exponential loops. What interests me is the possibility that doing something today changes what I can do tomorrow.
Repeating an activity isn’t enough to explain that. I want to understand what accumulates through the repetition. If I learn something, where does that knowledge go? How does it become useful the next time I encounter a problem? What would the routine need to include for that to happen consistently?
I don’t have an equation for it. I’m trying to identify the activities and the connections between them before deciding what kind of growth they produce.
A product inside the routine
This changes how I think about building a product.
I can ask how to launch it, market it, or get people interested. But I also need to ask where it fits in a person’s daily routine. Once it is there, how does value get created through using it?
If I start from the routine, I have to think about what people actually want their day to feel like. Do they want to spend more time talking to a chatbot? What are they trying to accomplish through that conversation? What should happen afterwards?
I think that is part of figuring out how humans and AI can work together. We need to understand the human activity well enough to know what the product should contribute.
The question I want to spend more time on is what a day could contain if we designed it around those possibilities. Which activities would be worth repeating, and what would we have to build around them so their value carries forward?