There was a nice discussion about implementation of self-tracking this evening over dinner in Chinatown, after the Habit Design meetup at Rock Health. Attendees included Gary Wolf (@agaricus), Nancy Dougherty (@nancyhd), Ernesto Ramirez (@e_ramirez), and other illustrious folks.
I’ve been thinking for a while that we need to develop a the concept of a Quant [...]
I joined 175 other quanters at the Quantified Self meetup in Mountain View this evening, and gave an Ignite talk on the interaction between self-trackers and doctors. This is an area that presents many current challenges, past difficulties, and (I think) great future promise for developing a shared vocabulary and framework to empower both doctors [...]
Do you get enough deep, restorative sleep?
I’ve been helping my patients to sleep better for many years. I’d estimate that 70% of everyone I’ve asked says their sleep isn’t optimal. And perhaps 35-40% say it’s really a problem. And an unknown additional percent have a sleep disorder, but aren’t aware of it. In our [...]
As a doctor, I’m always trying to assess where a given patient is along the spectrum of self-tracking readiness. I’ve found that many people fit into one of these three broad categories:
1) “Hardcore quanter.” They know, or think they know, exactly what they want/need, often specific laboratory tests, [...]
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