Benjamin DeHass | Fremont, CA
This is the first entry in a build journal documenting the development of an AI-Powered weekly planning application. I am failing in public, learning and documenting as I go.
Like waves, my energy is not constant. I too have high tides and low tides, roaring motivation and silent drain. This lack of consistent energy is what makes me human, but it is also what adds to the flaws in my weekly planner. These planners, and even I, cannot account for everything life throws at me. As such, there is a problem in all current system planners which is their lack of understanding the waves.
Current solutions are schedulers, not learners. They are very good at following the user input, but do not add any input of their own. They have seen the low tides of failed deep work on Tuesday at 2pm followed by the attempt to start fresh the next week, and yet they just watch. They don’t attempt to speak wave, let alone coexist with them.
The lack of adherence to your perfect schedule is not a failure, it is data for learning. Every missed task, every week that was full of low notes, those are the waves explaining themselves to anyone who will listen. The goal of this scheduler is to listen, to hear the subliminals and respond to them in a way to benefit you, the user.
Success looks like a user 12 months in with a deeply personal scheduling model. This model knows their seasonal patterns, their energy cycles, their tendency to overestimate their cooking speed. The moat of this application is its ability to talk to the waves. It will listen to the signals and make informed decisions based on data even the user may have missed. A success for you, the user, is a seamless transition between false perfection and the appreciation of the lack thereof.