June 17, 2022
In middle school, I really wanted this smartwatch called the Pebble Time. I mean, look at this beauty:
I donāt quite remember why, but I had to pitch my parents on letting me get it. Perhaps they were going to pay for it.
But I remember making a Google Slides presentation for them to do a formal pitch. I was in a phase of my life where I was very into making slick presentations with cool transitions.
Unfortunately the original presentation has been lost somewhere along the way, but I remember the gist of it: that a Pebble smartwatch would make me use my phone less.
It was a smartwatch with an e-ink screen that couldnāt do a whole lot. So when new notifications came in, Iād see them on the watch instead of picking up my phone and getting distracted with other apps.
I distinctly remember slides that illustrated how āphone ā social media, reddit, reading articlesā while āsmartwatch ā stopwatch? step goals? notifications Iāve already read?ā.
Itās a nice idea, but Iām not sure whether it actually came true. Iād bet that the Pebble (which I did eventually end up getting ā nice) didnāt actually make me less distracted by my phone.
But I find one thing interested about this story: I knew what angle to pitch this so that my parents would have the best chance of agreeing. In a way, I knew my audience.
Perhaps it demonstrates that I had sleezy salesman tendencies starting in middle school. In which case this isnāt a very flattering story. Oops.
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