27 June 2011

The Measured Life ~ TR on Quantified Self'ers...

Nice piece by Emily Singer in TR on The Measured Life about self-monitoring devices and systems and the...
"...rapidly growing movement of fitness buffs, techno-geeks, and patients with chronic conditions who obsessively monitor various personal metrics. At the center of the movement is a loosely organized group known as the Quantified Self, whose members are driven by the idea that collecting detailed data can help them make better choices about their health and behavior. In meetings held all over the world, self-trackers discuss how they use a combination of traditional spreadsheets, an expanding selection of smart-phone apps, and various consumer and custom-built devices to monitor patterns of food intake, sleep, fatigue, mood, and heart rate. [...] even as startups plot how to profit from the trend, the people behind the self-tracking movement have a very different mind-set -- and very different goals. "I find that the most interesting tools are those that give us the chance to reflect on who we are," says Wolf, the Quantified Self founder. The problems self-tracking tries to solve, he says, are important to everyone's life: "How to eat, how to sleep, how to learn, how to work, how to be happy."
P.S. Nice photo above by Winnie Wintermeyer of MIT Media Lab's Ian Eslick using his Zeo!

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