Monday, May 3, 2010

The Data-Driven Life

"Numbers make problems less resonant emotionally but more tractable
intellectually"

[Why do these people track the most mundane trivial aspects of their lives? It's surely not to improve efficiency. - TE]

"Efficiency implies rapid progress toward a known goal. For many self-
trackers, the goal is unknown. Although they may take up tracking with
a specific question in mind, they continue because they believe their
numbers hold secrets that they can't afford to ignore, including
answers to questions they have not yet thought to ask."

MAGAZINE PREVIEW: The Data-Driven Life

What happens when technology can analyze every quotidian thing that
happened to you today.

http://nyti.ms/9U304O

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