The Quantified Self 2.0

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve sent my FitBit Charge HR in for warranty. Yesterday I got a new one and I’ve started monitoring myself again — and I somehow feel more at ease wearing it. I even had a great streak at the gym.

Side note: I’ve started a personal #healthchallenge 6 weeks ago under the strict supervision of a trainer.

You cannot improve what you can’t measure.

I’ve also realized that I missed correlating physical cues (like an elevated pulse) with various events. I noticed that if I check my pulse when I’m in a tense situation I tend to calm down much faster. It helps me push myself just a little bit harder during workouts. It constantly helps me set new benchmarks.

I’ve heard about the quantified self movement about a year ago. And I haven’t given it much thought until I started using a tracker and a smart scale and realized that I’m relying more on data than common sense advice to improve my health.

So I’ve started using a few apps and services that gather data — either from devices or by manual input. But the thing with data is that it tends to be quite varied and pile up quite fast. There is useful data and there is utterly useless nonsense data — like logging every time a particular muscle twitches, correlated with how many times you blink or breaths you take.

Yes, we need data in order to improve, but we need useful data and we need to make sense of it. Beyond charts and graphs, way beyond manually logging every action. We need real, actionable insights. We need to help our caregivers and others who look after our health and well-being take better care of us using data.

It’s time for the quantified self to go 2.0.

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