She was too tired to live the lifestyle she had ordered anyway
Sandwiched in a metro train stuffed with the morning crowd, she was fine-tuning data viz animations for a client.
Her favourite music mixed with random movements of the train always made her extra productive. It could have something to do with spatial imagination.
Valentine's Day or not, her social calendar had been empty for months.
Fuck it. What’s the worst thing that can happen?
She was too tired to live the lifestyle she had ordered anyway.
LifeSync is all the rage, and their value prop was fascinating.
Live the life you want.
On autopilot.
At the end of summer, she feeds her crypTotem with data. Locations, purchase logs, transaction histories, socials, medical, platform IDs, you name it. Her human life, in numbers, gets crunched and digested by cutting-edge algos. LifeSync profiles the data further through an interview that feels more like a weird therapy session than onboarding.
It took a while, but my God, it worked like a charm.
Maxing out on networking felt like the right choice for someone new to the city. The Hustle Punk was a grind-tier package, but it helped her meet tons of people, win new work, and make her profiles shine in a few months.
As she stares at the confirmation with last-step hesitation, the train stops, sending a wave of movement through the crowd.
Switching her life to a Social Animal lifestyle takes ten long seconds, making it feel like a real life-changing decision.
She hears a slight change in her audio, and the surrounding colours get more saturated. Presets start kicking in.
Exiting the train, one person gets a highlight in her peripheral vision.
She slowly turns, looking at a black backpack on broad shoulders topped with dark curls.
A concert appears on the calendar.
The door closes with a hiss.
Full date insurance.
The crowd’s flow takes her up the escalator. Suddenly, she feels happier about the weekend.
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Weekly Self-Reflection Prompts
Let's make the products and services mentioned in this week’s story even more relatable by first grounding them in your personal life.
For extra inspiration, you can use this quote, which is more important than ever in light of OpenAI’s text-to-video model announcement.
The future always arrives too fast... and in the wrong order.
Alvin Toffler
Personal life reflection prompts
Can you list 3 personal dreams you could achieve faster with a tailored package?
Would you sync your data on a digital crypTotem, or pick a physical one?
Name a Lifestyle you would be ready to upgrade to today.
One thing that would worry you about Lifestyle Presets, and two that would convince you to it?
Great job.
Now, let’s switch to the context of your industry, organisation, or product you are working with.
Professional life reflection prompts
What 3 aspects of your professional life would you like to put on autopilot?
Would your current organisation ban, regulate, or encourage using lifestyle presets?
As a leader, which metrics improvement would convince you to reconsider your previous answer?
What products could your current organisation improve or introduce to leverage the adoption of LifestylePresets?
If you were tasked to put an internal team leading the integration with LifeSync, who would you ask to lead it?
And that’s all we have today.
Comment your answers. Let us know your biggest takeaway or something that resonates with you so we can explore it more.
Don't forget to explore previous editions if you want even more inspiration.
Have an inspiring week, and see you in the next one.
Pawel Halicki
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