Calendly, but where I can put $ price on timeslots. Sure, …

That guy who wants an all-team meeting for everything?

He has to pay each team member's price for the timeslot.

Guy who hates showing up to meetings?

He gets paid to.

@145, you've got a beta tester ready if you try something like this...;-)

cc @315 this is a great idea. Meetings are mostly a waste of time. Make these incompetent 'project managers' go bankrupt.

When you want to talk during a meeting, you have to pay everyone to listen

There are many times it’s the ‘detail oriented’ folks (myself included) that waste others’ time being zoomed in too far.

I do love this concept for bookings, but also feel the practicality of hyper-gamifying every form of human interaction is red herring.

That said, taking that idea further, it could be really compelling for real-time feedback from participants in a meeting.

If you’re rambling on, intentional carrot vs stick behaviors could clue you in to wrap it up or get back on topic.

But automating that has ramped-up implications around data ingestion, privacy, etc.

To say nothing of the consequence or indelible mistakes. Who’s to say the capacity for a human to forgive (even if via forget), is critical for mutual reconciliation?

My grandpa always told me: “You go through life with a Track Record.“

The obvious implication being if you “Stay on the Straight + Narrow” and don’t mess up, your record stays good. But if you let your foot off the gas, so to speak, you lose ground.

That’s all well and good when you’re at your first Starting Block.

But I’ve also seen + experienced how demoralizing this singular perspective can have in the face of defeat.

Everyone inevitably faces defeat.
Everyone faces setbacks.

That’s all to say zooming very far in on this sort of gamification is useful, but after the novelty, humans tend to stray from the beaten path, losing sight of what we were after when we started ‘the journey’, circling deep eddies of our creations.

Sometimes we build things that are so useful, so accessible, and so viral, that it spreads through humanity like wildfire, igniting amazing creativity + ingenuity.

But this creates a necessary ‘stagnant ubiquity’.

There are inevitably hidden costs.

What if the intrinsic value already being communicated between individuals in a group is severely undervalued; insomuch as if we all were more in-tune with that ‘data flow’, we would see how this already is evaluated via ‘soft skills’ + ‘social capital’?

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Definitely the case. But social capital has limited range. The less info/access to someone, the less SC. Meaningful signals (like who they know, how well they spell, etc.) are helpful but leave many gaps.

Price signals could fill in some of those gaps.

Biggest value is INCREASING accessibility and optimizing match of supply/demand for my time.

Rn requests for time from strangers come with equal weight, even though some value it way more I can't see that.

Let them signal via meeting my price per unit.

Increased access by adding variability vs. binary.

Rn I'm either hard Y/N on a time slot. $ per slot lets me be available far more hours, but only to those who value those hours more than me.

Non-price rationing is "lumpier", less efficient distribution.

Building on the "what is your time worth?" paradigm. I love it.

Who wants to partner on building this? I have been taking on too much to reasonably fulfil this myself, but I'm interested.

Wondering if me and @109 could spin up something simple with nocode tools and moneybutton.

Though I have been taking on too much lately as well. lol.