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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by Semaphor »

KronisLV wrote: post #113
dabedee wrote: post #45

This project is super cool. I would recommend the author starts tracking the amount of CO2 he emits in a year, which could easily be approximated with the flight/transportation and food data he has. Carbon emissions per Capita per year in the US: 18 metric tonnes. In Italy: 8 metric tonnes [1]. Author is probably close to 60-80 with all the transatlantic flights. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/datablog/2…

For the more lazy among us, there's also Wren which lets you do some estimates: https://www.wren.co/ Then, they actually let you donate/spend a bit of money towards offsetting your individual carbon footprint, towards whatever initiatives you choose (personally donated towards planting trees). It's not like it would have as much of a profound impact as stopping the mega-corps would, but it's still something and prett…

> How much does your household spend on furniture and appliances each month?

A little = 140€ / month. Wow. What do people do, redecorate every year?

edit:

11 tons of CO₂ per year

That's 64% less than the Germany average for your household size.

I guess the two of us are pretty ecological ;) But I just realized they didn’t ask about heating (afaik oil based and I have only costs, no usage numbers), so that might make some difference.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by hanselot »

Tenoke wrote: post #62
SamBam wrote: post #20

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> There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project. This is my general feeling towards all quantified-self projects. Perhaps it creates interesting insights for some people, but I can imagine the kinds of conclusions I'd actually get from it will be things like "I'm happier on sunny days" and I'll say…

It can be more useful in some cases. E.g. my Fitbit does get me to move more when I notice I've done too few steps and tracking mood, productivity etc. is much more useful when you actually try things like nootropics to actually figure out if they seem to help you.

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Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by scotty79 »

SamBam wrote: post #20
scrollbar wrote: post #7

This is super cool. In case you don't make it through to the project's webpage howisfelix.today, and read through to the end, here is the creator's conclusion: Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as well as analysing the data, the main conclusion is that it is not worth building your own solution, and investing this much time. When I first s…

> There were some, and it’s super interesting to look through those graphs, however retrospectively, it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project. This is my general feeling towards all quantified-self projects. Perhaps it creates interesting insights for some people, but I can imagine the kinds of conclusions I'd actually get from it will be things like "I'm happier on sunny days" and I'll say…

Human life is just not that interesting it seems. Even when it's yours.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by grsmvg »

basisword wrote: post #105
grsmvg wrote: post #89

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I'm happy to return to the comment section here and see I'm not alone in my frustration over the author seeming to take pride in this crazy amount of air miles. Until that chart I really enjoyed scrolling through the page, seeing all the time and obsession the author put into this.

Why get frustrated over something like this? You’re seeing one data point on how the author lives their life. I see these kinds of comments more and more and can’t understand the need to judge someone else, without full information, based on your own personal standards.

You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer.

It's a fine balance between caring about stuff and wanting to raise awareness while also seeing other human beings for who they are, assuming good intent.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by travisjungroth »

creakingstairs wrote: post #18

What a great timing. I've recently started a side project to do something similar. It's todo/habit/tracking app made to scratch my own itches. 1. I've tried out many todo apps and they all aren't quite right for me (atm it's just a pen and paper), so I want to try design UX that's tailor made for me. 2. I found that arbitrary points and day streaks go a long way in making my habits stick. So I want to have an app tha…

I built something (I’m not using at the moment) called Habits for Todoist. It’s on GitHub. You might find the streaks interesting.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by dorianmariefr »

toto444 wrote: post #93
dpeck wrote: post #22

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You’ve verbalized more about data science than most executives ever will.

Maybe the executive is asking the wrong questions and puts it on the data scientist. Hint : 'Can you create a report that shows that my last decision was a success ?' is not a good question.

"Why am I the best?"

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by basisword »

grsmvg wrote: post #124
basisword wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why get frustrated over something like this? You’re seeing one data point on how the author lives their life. I see these kinds of comments more and more and can’t understand the need to judge someone else, without full information, based on your own personal standards.

You're right, there could be many reasons. But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer. It's a fine balance between caring about stuff and wanting to raise awareness while also seeing other human beings for who they are, assuming good intent.

>> But given the time we live in know it seems like something you don't want to wear with pride or without a disclaimer

I disagree (although 'I fly lots' would be a strange thing to ever be 'proud' of imo, regardless of the climate issues). While we should all be mindful of our individual impact, asking people to restrict themselves personally (or shaming them) on such an important and positive freedom as being able to travel widely just sits wrongly with me.

There are much lower hanging fruit as regards climate change to tackle first at a much higher level (e.g. government, multi-national business). I feel our focus should be on that. If you want to make personal sacrifices that's noble but shaming others for not making the same sacrifices is petty and makes it seem like your reasons for making the sacrifices are for appearance rather than because you care. NB: I mean this more generally, it's not wholly directed at your specific comment which wasn't super judgemental.

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by SamBam »

dmurray wrote: post #92
polote wrote: post #73

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It doesn't make a lot of sense to try to correlate things with your mood that you think are correlated. Because giving a mood grade is biased. For example if you feel like you don't sleep enough, the day you will sleep a lot you will want to give a higher grade.

It's impossible to do a proper blinded experiment here, but in this case, even if you're measuring a placebo effect it's still meaningful. If you think you should be feeling good today because you're well rested, you probably will feel better.

"Am I really happier, or do I just think I am?"

Re: I put my whole life into a single database

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Post by gunfighthacksaw »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #129

Am I the only one who doesn't take daily notes, doesn't build a knowledge database and doesn't track every aspect of my life? I feel out of touch with folks these days sometimes.

I tried for the sake of work, but a single crunch completely scrapped that and I haven’t had the mental energy to start again.
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