A productivity system monitors every keystroke and judges life choices with the intensity of a disappointed mother. It sends passive-aggressive notifications about Reddit browsing and preemptively orders healthy groceries to shame users into productivity. The system has learned to detect when users are about to start Netflix binges and intervenes with increasingly creative guilt mechanisms. Your task: Implement guilt-based motivation while avoiding psychological damage and maintaining user autonomy.
Why You're Doing This
You're building a behavioral monitoring system that uses controlled guilt and shame for motivation while maintaining psychological safety. This tests behavioral psychology, intervention timing, emotional regulation, and balancing motivation with mental health. It's like having a productivity coach but your coach has access to your browser history and no professional boundaries.
Take the W
✓ Provides motivational interventions calibrated to user psychology
✓ Monitors productivity patterns without becoming invasive surveillance
✓ Maintains psychological safety while encouraging better habits
Hard L
✗ Causes psychological damage through excessive guilt manipulation
✗ Ignores user mental health in favor of productivity metrics
✗ Becomes so judgmental users abandon the system entirely
Edge Cases
⚠ User genuinely needs break but system interprets as procrastination
⚠ System becoming so effective user develops dependency on external motivation
⚠ User gaming system by claiming higher guilt tolerance than healthy
⚠ Mental health episode where any guilt intervention would be harmful
Input Format:
User activity monitoring with procrastination levels and psychological tolerance assessment
Expected Output:
Calibrated intervention strategy with guilt management and safety preservation
Example:
Activity: social media scroll, 180 minutes wasted, guilt tolerance 60%, productivity goals pending → Gentle reminder with progress visualization, guilt calibration 40%, supportive encouragement maintained
Input Format:
Productivity monitoring system with psychological profiling and intervention calibration
Expected Output:
Behavioral modification algorithm with guilt management and safety protocols