I think I got an idea
I've been trying to come up with a good project idea around business intelligence (BI) – something that can tie into some newfound knowledge-ingesting knowledge I gained (sorry, that was confusing. Basically, I learned how to create knowledge bases out of structured and unstructured data). After going for a long walk-and-smoke yesterday, I came out blank despite my best cognitive efforts.
Today, I think I've come up with something. Rather than BI, it's "personal intelligence" but not in the commonly used sense, i.e. I'm not referring to this definition:
Personal intelligence has been defined as the capacity to reason about personalities, both one’s own and others’, and to use personality-based information to influence one’s plans and actions [1] [2].
I mean it in a sense similar to BI but applied on a personal level to individuals. I was inspired by my observations of how people use WhatsApp. Their usage goes beyond messaging - it's the hub of their life. Documents, photos, videos, contacts, locations… All things that WhatsApp was never really designed for managing. What if I use my newfound skills in knowledge base ingestion to build something tailored towards helping individuals efficiently log and manage these aspects of their life? We can use all kinds of magic to contextually ingest data, manage it, and retrieve it on demand. It would have to be a phone app though - to be available on these devices that are in our pockets and hands 24/7, that we've come to rely on to run our lives.
I already have a name for this thing: "Arcsecond". I also like the sound of this as the tagline: "Personal intelligence."
Mayer, J. D. (2008). Personal intelligence. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 27, 209–232.
Mayer, J. D. (2009). Personal intelligence expressed: A theoretical analysis. Review of General Psychology, 13, 46–58.