Amsterdam—Fabian van der Sluis found his head wedged in a wall on Sunday morning after following Google Maps. It was 13 seconds via the corridor, but less than five seconds with the app’s quickest route. For Fabian, the choice was obvious.
Despite breaking through drywall and head-butting a load-bearing beam, Fabian is positive about the outcome. He says it was the wake-up call he needed. Fabian estimates that with the additional time saved, he can send an additional 22 messages a day on Slack.
“All I saw was a wall, but Google Maps has literally opened a new door for me.”
Fabian has been micro-hacking his way to an optimised life since he started his minimalist journey. “Sure, today I need to visit hospital, but tomorrow I’ll get to work completing this tech-inspired shortcut.”
Fabian is part of a growing cohort who are outsourcing basic human functions to technology. Big Breath AhhhhhhAI, offers users Breathing As A Service (BAAS). Fabian says the company’s data shows that his nightly anxiety score has been radically reduced.
“Nothing is more petrifying than breathing without AI. How can anyone expect a good night’s rest without it?”
For super-users like Fabian, the company offers a master class on breathing fundamentals, and Foundations in LEDs—your green light to breathing success.
TouchPoint, another Silicon Valley start-up, offers users an enriched tactile experience via smart pads placed over their fingertips. Fabian says he never really enjoyed drinking a cold one until wearing the TouchPoint Tactile gloves (€179) that light up blue when holding a cold beer.
Critics are concerned that these innovations are costly, and the average household will not be able to afford the full human experience that technology has to offer. But for Fabian, despite the ongoing treatments for the brain damage, he used the experience to launch an internal apartment navigation system that finds even shorter routes than Google Maps.
Since Fabian’s breakthrough moment, a VC backed him on his minimalist-hack venture, stating, “Silicon Valley needs more people like Fabian who see doors, not walls.” When Fabian is not spruiking his app on the podcast circuit, he spends his downtime developing technological solutions to other pressing human problems. His most recent project occurred via an epiphany after spending long hours ideating behind the computer. “I literally pissed myself—and that’s the very moment FlowState.ai was born.”