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Augmenting Human Potential with Omatum

15 pointsby technologyvaultover 7 years ago

5 comments

abra_kadabraover 7 years ago
So I was excited to understand what this tool was all about, but I got lost in the text pretty quickly. At first it seemed like a personal organization tool, then it looked like a team management tool, then I wasn't really sure and bailed. If you were giving me an elevator pitch, what would it be?
dasil003over 7 years ago
The sales pitch here seems to be: we can organize your whole life better than you can, but in order to buy into that I have to believe that technology is capable of being better at general purpose intelligence than a human, which is obviously not the case today. This quote attempts to speak to the technological advantage:<p>&gt; <i>The human brain processes twelve tasks per minute. Omatum can process, maintain, and update 60 tasks per open instance at the speed of your CPU.</i><p>It&#x27;s unclear how this is defined, but one thing is for sure, I don&#x27;t measure my success or happiness by number of tasks processed. Personally my goal is make solid progress on one critical task each day, and I put a lot of effort to optimizing those tasks, and clearing other blockers and mental detritus (which, btw, often comes in the form of random apps, tools and notifications). I&#x27;m open to the idea of data-driven tools helping me make better decisions, but doing things faster is not a good pitch by itself.<p>There is supposedly some underlying tech here with broad applicability that drives all these products, but the marketing neither describes that tech, nor does it explain a concrete use case. As a result, neither the engineer nor the consumer in me sees a compelling value proposition.<p>My advice is go concrete, and prove your value for one specific use-case first. If you can get a passionate group of users around that then you can build on that. Going too broad before you have traction will likely elicit a &quot;meh&quot; response from most visitors.
bykovich2over 7 years ago
&gt; Life is a complicated symphony of events, it isn&#x27;t easy to arrange a perfect solution on your own.<p>Implicit here is the assumption that there is a problem (life itself?) to which a solution can be arranged, and that &quot;arranging a perfect solution&quot; is a worthy aim.<p>Why does one need to seek a &quot;solution&quot; to a symphony?
jxramosover 7 years ago
I don&#x27;t buy it, but I do like the general idea of intelligence augmentation <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intelligence_amplification" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Intelligence_amplification</a>
sp527over 7 years ago
I honestly thought this was a parody and kept scrolling in hope of a punchline :(