The Beginner’s Guide to Quantified Self
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The Beginner’s Guide to Quantified Self
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#2I've found that I'm actually a lot happier not tracking all this stuff about myself. I was tracking my sleep, my running, my eating, my stress, my time, etc. Then a few months ago decided that I needed to focus more on living life and less on just checking in to it.
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#3Narrato are building an open platform for the quantified self. They currently only have one sample app called Narrato journal but it might be one to keep an eye on:
https://www.narrato.co/
On the subject of quantified self Stephen Wolfram's blog post 'The Personal Analytics of My Life' (http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...) is an interesting read.
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#4Meh. This quantified self business is just the next iteration of herbal remedies, Chinese medicine, and all that other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo out there. You might as well add your astrological sign to all these apps.
This is yet another area where people are attempting to layer technology on top of a problem that does not exist.
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#5Meh. This quantified self business is just the next iteration of herbal remedies, Chinese medicine, and all that other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo out there. You might as well add your astrological sign to all these apps. This is yet another area where people are attempting to layer technology on top of a problem that does not exist.
Meh. This quantified self business is just the next iteration of herbal remedies, Chinese medicine, and all that other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo out there. You might as well add your astrological sign to all these apps.
Why would you think that? If anything, the self quantified movement is all about thinking scientifically to improve yourself. Gathering data, analyzing, designing experiments, generating hypothesis, and publishing for feedback are all part of being self quantified.
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#6I've found that I'm actually a lot happier not tracking all this stuff about myself. I was tracking my sleep, my running, my eating, my stress, my time, etc. Then a few months ago decided that I needed to focus more on living life and less on just checking in to it.
My problem is that the tool I used isn't automatic. I just got too tired of pricking my skin for glucose tracking, noting down my weight, and resetting my pedometer everyday.
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#7Sweet ad for askmeevery.com.
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#8Any movement that lacks explicit acknowledgement of statistical significance is worrisome to me. I think for many -- myself included -- it is temptingly easy to attribute causation or project a bias onto data collected like this (eg "I'm in a bad mood today because I only slept for 5 and a half hours last night").
I would be interested in analyzing the data after I had a large pool and a decent idea of shape, center, and spread, but I also don't trust myself to wait that long.
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#9I've found that I'm actually a lot happier not tracking all this stuff about myself. I was tracking my sleep, my running, my eating, my stress, my time, etc. Then a few months ago decided that I needed to focus more on living life and less on just checking in to it.
May be it was because you were tracking too many things? I think it is like tweeting/taking photos etc - done sparingly, it might be really useful (especially when tracking only important things), doing it too much might feel like a chore.
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#10Meh. This quantified self business is just the next iteration of herbal remedies, Chinese medicine, and all that other pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo out there. You might as well add your astrological sign to all these apps. This is yet another area where people are attempting to layer technology on top of a problem that does not exist.
What you are missing is that people figuring out useful stats from all these numbers and then improving their lives based on real life in real time. I suggest you try this for 1 day, just keep track of your happiness. Its really interesting and optimizable, as you can find out.
Sure no one is saying quantified will get you from a 1 to a 10 on the happiness scale, but it will definitely help you to learn more about yourself.