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Wrap-Up of My January/February Self-Tracking Projects
If you have not noticed yet, the “modus operandi” for this blog and my self-tracking efforts is a bit different this year. The month of January was spent collecting data, testing apps and services, and...
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My Quantified Self Projects and Self-Experiments in March
The March is almost over, so I thought it is a good time to tell what kind of things I am have been tracking and what self-experiments I have been conducting this month. As usual, at the end of the...
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Update On My Waking Mood Experiment (March)
Can you predict your day based on how you feel immediately upon waking up? In an attempt to replicate Sami Inken’s analysis, I have been rating my mood every morning within 15 minutes of waking up, and...
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Tracking Self-Esteem
Self-esteem refers to individual’s emotional evaluation of his/her own worth and personal abilities and capacities. Psychologists believe that self-esteem influences how we feel, act and relate to...
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My Walking Experiment: Comparing Runkeeper and Bodymedia
I have been using RunKeeper to keep track of my walks and bike rides for a while now. In addition to distance and pace, RunKeeper offers an estimate of calories burned that is most likely derived based...
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Tracking Chaos in My Life
The ultimate purpose of self-tracking, in my opinion, is control. Control over health conditions, performance, mood, and other aspects of your everyday life. To paraphrase the famous adage, we measure...
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Three Temporal Patterns That May Affect Your Quantified Self Insights
In this post, I will discuss three invisible temporal patterns that are likely to be present in your self-tracking data and which, if ignored during analysis, may lead to erroneous conclusions and...
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Talking 20: After Lots of Talking, Not So Much To Tell
Talking 20 is a young biotechnology start-up in California that aims at making low-cost, at home blood tests that could be used to track twenty essential amino acids (hence the name). In October 2012,...
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My Talk at the 2013 Quantified Self Conference
As promised, posting today the slides of my “100 Days of Summer” talk that I presented at the 2013 Quantified Self conference in San Francisco last Thursday (October 10). In this presentation, I shared...
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My Case Against Longevity Research: Some Thoughts
I have noticed that a lot of Quantified Self folks and biohackers are interested in longevity research. Personally, I never could understand their fascination with extended life. While I am not...
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