Self-disciplinary Technology
I'd love to build tools that help us achieve our goals, and help us be self-disciplined. I'd love to make
- a watch/time-keeping device that has no actual times/numbers on it. What does it do to our perception of time?
- a device that accepts your smartphone when you're at home/work and allows you to access core functions through more tangible interfaces, like my PhD experiment.
- tools that require pre-commitment-- usb plugs that turn your computer into single function devices, phone UIs that limit you to what you ask for when you open the phone.
- embodiments that physically separate spaces; a router that blocks email delivery except in one room; a physically separate space for tasks; a seemingly separate space (virtually overlaid) for various tasks with a delay between them.