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To do what though? Even the linked thread has no concrete examples. If I had a human personal assistant, most (all?) the value to me would be doing physical er

by tqi 3y ago

To do what though? Even the linked thread has no concrete examples. If I had a human personal assistant, most (all?) the value to me would be doing physical errands. I'm not so busy or important that I'd need someone to manage my calendar or correspondence. Travel planning could be helpful, but I don't know if the "personal" aspect of it has that much incremental value over a centralized model...

interstice 3y ago
The personal aspect would be connections to your contacts, apps and devices (if you have that kind of thing). If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing. That is, if you trust it enough to plug into your personal ecosystem and spend your money..
- smugglerFlynn 3y ago
  I’d assume anyone living such a busy life he needs a personal assistant to make dinner appointment decisions for him, most likely already has one. One of the most basic tricks in product management, when validating a product idea, is to ask your potential customer “how do you currently try solve this problem?”. Because oftentimes these problems are fantasies nobody actually cares enough to solve.
- tqi 3y ago
  > If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing. The way I see it, if I had an ever present human assistant following me around 24/7, I would definitely get some value from being able to offload parts of those tasks. However my gut says that the amount is quite small, since I would still need to direct them to do stuff for me, and confirm everything. Most of the value I've seen from EAs is helping to coordinate competing priorities, and I just don't have that many. On top of that, a lot of the little ways that people get value from assistants (calling up hard to reach restaurants, reminding you to send cards and gifts) lose it's value if EVERYONE has access to an assistant.

by tqi 3y ago

interstice 3y ago

The personal aspect would be connections to your contacts, apps and devices (if you have that kind of thing). If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing. That is, if you trust it enough to plug into your personal ecosystem and spend your money..

smugglerFlynn 3y ago
I’d assume anyone living such a busy life he needs a personal assistant to make dinner appointment decisions for him, most likely already has one. One of the most basic tricks in product management, when validating a product idea, is to ask your potential customer “how do you currently try solve this problem?”. Because oftentimes these problems are fantasies nobody actually cares enough to solve.
tqi 3y ago
> If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing. The way I see it, if I had an ever present human assistant following me around 24/7, I would definitely get some value from being able to offload parts of those tasks. However my gut says that the amount is quite small, since I would still need to direct them to do stuff for me, and confirm everything. Most of the value I've seen from EAs is helping to coordinate competing priorities, and I just don't have that many. On top of that, a lot of the little ways that people get value from assistants (calling up hard to reach restaurants, reminding you to send cards and gifts) lose it's value if EVERYONE has access to an assistant.