As the year wraps up, apps/websites we use send us a recap of what we have used or done with them. #Stopifywrapped #redditrecap #IGplayback etc
Interestingly, we are most times surprised by the recap, which shows how unaware we are when using these apps. Most of us use them rather passively.
This idea of year recaps are fascinating, but what is more intriguing is that we don’t do the same for more important things in our life.
How many hours did you sleep last night? How many times have you exercised this year?
This is the basis for the quantified self.
Wikipedia explains it as Both to the cultural phenomenon of self-tracking with technology and to a community of users and makers of self-tracking tools who share an interest in “self-knowledge through numbers”.
There is a difference between just logging the numbers and understanding what the numbers mean -translating the numbers into useful information.
So, as the year ends, it is time to reflect and choose what important metrics we will measure next year.
The unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
In the spirit of reflecting, here is a thread, more like an exercise by Jim O’Shaughnessy
Readings
First Quantified Self notes by Tim Ferris
Quantified Self website