Take a look at the Quantified Self initiative, led by Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf.
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At the heart of the quantified self-movement lies a very simple idea: metrics make us better.
And quantified self and food and tech like I said earlier, are going to converge at some point.
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In the end, the quantified self may be less about the numbers and more about the personal insight.
Now comes a phenomenon known as the Quantified Self, or self-tracking, which posits a sort of truth in numbers.
The program, organized by TechStars, focuses on startups in areas such as training, coaching, gaming, data visualization and the quantified self.
When I attend my first Quantified Self Meetup, I discover that other members share my excitement and perplexity: They don't know what to do with their data.
The quantified self movement's gaining steam, with companies creating all sorts of gadgets to track our activity levels, sleeping habits and even what's going on inside our heads.
Founded three years ago by two Wired magazine editors, the Quantified Self is an organization in San Francisco with Meetup groups in 23 cities around the world, including Europe, Africa and Australia.
This strikes me as the best way to evaluate this idea and leads us to ask the same question about personalized genomics that the quantified self movement asks about every other metric: will it improve performance.
"Monitoring cardiorespiratory health and stress levels are an important yet neglected aspect of understanding one's health and wellness progression which is in line with the Quantified Self movement" said Juliana Chua, Principal of Zensorium's Business Innovation Group.
Is the Quantified Self a cult?
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How about the quantified self?
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See, for example, the scaling innovation structures inherent in Quantified Self that has engaged individuals so efficiently in large self-monitoring studies that it now spawns startups and attracts partnerships with organizations as diverse medical device firms and university research centers.
We do have a say in the treatment we need to be well, whether that involves new ways to pay for services like health care savings accounts (which, according to Hwang, are a smart way to reduce the cost of traditional insurance) or endorsing movements to empower consumers like the Quantified Self.
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My partner, Andy, is in conversation right with 3 or 4 companies that are in the quantified-self area.
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