☀️ Orion shoots for the stars

Welcome, adventurers to Level 5.

We’re back at it again (the last level depleted a lot of my resources). And this time I’ve allocated more points into design and writing!

Also, based on feedback you can expect these levels to be shorter and more concise, and can now expect a new entry in your inbox every Tuesday.

In today’s entry:

• Meta’s gambit with Orion

• Notion takes first step to humanize AI

• Rise of Founder Mode and personal software

Let’s start this level 👇️ 

Balance patch for the product and tech world.

Seamlessly weaving physical and digital worlds
Buff / Augmented Reality

The Meta guild has unveiled a legendary artifact hidden in development for 10 years: the Orion AR Glasses. As the product name implies this is Meta’s shot into the stars promising to revolutionize how we interact between the physical and digital worlds.

Product Stats:

• +100 Information Access

• +80 Contextual Awareness

• +90 Social Connectivity

• -50 Phone Dependency

Unique Abilities:

1. Holographic Projection (Active Skill)

   • Cast 2D and 3D content into the physical world

   • Cooldown: None

2. AI Companion (Passive Buff)

   • Grants contextual understanding of surroundings

   • Anticipates user needs with 75% accuracy

3. Lightweight Enchantment (Passive Buff)

   • Allows for comfortable all-day wear

   • Works indoors and outdoors

4. Face-to-Face Enhancement (Passive Buff)

   • Preserves natural eye contact and facial expressions

   • +50 to Interpersonal Communication

Humanizing our AI Companions
Buff / AoE / Productivity / AI

The Notion guild have evolved our digital companion with…a face? On top of promises to continually revolutionize the realm of AI productivity the newly designed face gives AI a sense of humanity- think Clippy from the Microsoft 90’s era.

Product Stats:

• +100 Information Retrieval

• +80 Writing Efficiency

• +90 Team Coordination

• -75 Workflow Interruptions

Unique Abilities:

1. Omniscient Recall (Active Skill)

   • Recall information from the Slack and Google Drive realms

   • Cooldown: Instant

2. Master Editor (Active Skill)

   • Refines structure, flow, and tone of documents

   • Summarize and collect action items

3. Adaptive Intelligence (Passive Buff)

   • Learns from user interactions to provide more tailored assistance

   • Improves over time without manual training

Content from across the web to level up with.

• Paul Graham coined “Founder Mode” and now everyone is finding anecdotal ways to describe it.

How would you describe founder mode?

• Software is being consumerized via AI agents, no-code tools, and webhook services leading to the rise of “personal software”.

If you could build anything, anytime (with no delay) what would it be?

Earn experience points and rewards.

Quest: I want to hear your thoughts, so drop a comment on the web here on any of the headlines or loot drops you found particularly interesting!

Reward: 1000 XP

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