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Re: Exist

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Post by josephagoss »

jonnybgood wrote: post #35

This kind of tech reminds me of a story from Einstein's Dreams. It's a world of two kinds of people. Those who live close to the Earth living out there lives happily with no reservations and those who live at high altitudes because they believe the higher you are, the longer you'll live. Those who live at high altitudes measure the time they're at lower altitudes with stress and worry then haste back up so as to not…

This is very true and something I think about a lot. I come from the perspective that knowledge is always good to have, however it's a balance. You want to experience life in the now and live to the full, so most of the time these services are getting in the way.

I imagine as more computer 'clothing' comes out things like this will become more common because more knowledge at no more time expense can't be a bad thing.

Re: Exist

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Post by nobbyclark »

normloman wrote: post #22

How many tweets you make? How many tracks you listen to? How is this data going to help you improve your life? Tracking your sleep is one thing. But most of this is just noise. The name Exist is creepy. As if, you don't truly exist until you can pigeonhole yourself into a couple of statistics. I swear, everyone here is mind blind.

Don't forget...

> SHARE WITH FRIENDS

Because highly personal data needs to be shared with your friends. Just because.

Actually the real feature here would be "SHARE WITH MOM" for those mothers who always call to ask "Are you getting enough sleep?"

Re: Exist

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Post by kristiandupont »

Being a QS geek myself and partner in a QS based startup, I am always interested in new products.

However, it seems to me that 90% of people doing anything in this space have the same idea: track as much as possible and then try and see if there's anything interesting there.

"44% more likely to check in when you climb more floors" -- big whoop! I suspect that this is exactly the level of insights that you are likely to gain from that sort of approach. You will discover that you are indeed less productive if you don't sleep well or that you tend to have headaches after drinking large amounts of alcohol.

Exploratory data analysis is appealing because we like the idea of discovering something completely unexpected and revolutionary but I think confirmatory analysis (the boring one where you form a hypothesis and set up an experiment to test it) is much more likely to be useful.

Re: Exist

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Post by toomuchtodo »

roryokane wrote: post #31
normloman wrote: post #22

How many tweets you make? How many tracks you listen to? How is this data going to help you improve your life? Tracking your sleep is one thing. But most of this is just noise. The name Exist is creepy. As if, you don't truly exist until you can pigeonhole yourself into a couple of statistics. I swear, everyone here is mind blind.

“ Everyone here is mind blind”? https://xkcd.com/610/ I agree that tweets and tracks probably won’t help you notice any useful patterns. But I don’t see the name Exist as creepy. I interpret it rather as a way of saying that this is very passive software, and all you have to do to use it is to exist normally, as if it’s not there. Like existence is the context of this software, not the product they are selling.

Should've gone with thrive.io. I don't want to exist; quantify what I'm doing wrong, and how I can change it to achieve my goals.

Re: Exist

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Post by Aoyagi »

>We all create data about ourselves every day. From task lists to fitness trackers to the tweets we share, our data is everywhere.

So many assumptions.

Re: Exist

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Post by n1ghtmare_ »

bellebethcooper wrote: post #27
n1ghtmare_ wrote: post #21

Is this one of those things to see how many people are going to take interest in your project, when in reality you don't have anything at the moment ? I'm not sure why it looks that way.

Hmm I would hope it doesn't look that way. The screenshots are certainly not mockups—we actually have a tiny group of close friends using it already to help us test it out.

Sorry, it's just that these days I'm seeing a lot of places they do that kind of stuff (there was even a term for it - can't remember exactly what it was).

Having cleared that, I gotta say, it does look awesome and I wish you best of luck :) !

Re: Exist

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Post by weego »

I know about my lifestyle. I'm there as it happens. I can't help but feel things like this just lead to a general sense of vexation over details of little consequence.

Re: Exist

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Post by ejain »

kristiandupont wrote: post #43

Being a QS geek myself and partner in a QS based startup, I am always interested in new products. However, it seems to me that 90% of people doing anything in this space have the same idea: track as much as possible and then try and see if there's anything interesting there. "44% more likely to check in when you climb more floors" -- big whoop! I suspect that this is exactly the level of insights that you are likely…

If you prefer "confirmatory analysis" over the "correlate all the things" approach then check out zenobase.com (I'm the founder). The answers you get are as smart as the questions you ask :-)

That said, I also just signed up for for Exist.io; the screenshots look great, and I'm curious to see where this leads!

Re: Exist

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Post by devindotcom »

weego wrote: post #48

I know about my lifestyle. I'm there as it happens. I can't help but feel things like this just lead to a general sense of vexation over details of little consequence.

I'm with you - but I haven't found the alloy yet with which to form the knife that harms the "quantified self" "movement." Patience!
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