Their resource page includes close to 350 applications you can use to indulge in self-tracking.
Now comes a phenomenon known as the Quantified Self, or self-tracking, which posits a sort of truth in numbers.
Markoff, like many a somewhat-serious athlete, is a fan of self-tracking tools.
If this sounds weirdly narcissistic, consider that the movement has a forebear in a quintessential American: Benjamin Franklin, the founding father of self-tracking.
The self-tracking movement has already done a lot to raise awareness.
So the importance of self-tracking is personal to him, not only because of that but also in how it helped his dad lose weight and manage his health.
My behavior illustrates why angel investors like Esther Dyson are putting money behind self-tracking companies, such as GreenGoose, a startup that will soon sell kits with sensors that users can attach to their bikes, running gear or vitamin bottles.
One, he thinks of his technology as acomplement to modern medicine (some self-trackers believed they can do better than the pros) and it focuses on the next stage of self-tracking: the action behind the data using analytics, pattern learning and correlation.
So the hyper-individual trend is about people learning and applying new methods of choice, efficiency, self-monitoring, data tracking and information-gathering in their everyday lives.
For others, those with commission-based income, hourly jobs that shift income or self-employment income, tracking recording your income is every bit as important as your spending.
Mr. Silbermann was looking for help building a version of Pinterest for the iPhone and happened upon a data tracking app developed by the self-taught Mr. Lavingia.
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The line at the top of this post is taken from the homepage of DeskTime, a time tracking company that dispenses with the self-improvement ethos of rival services and gets down to the gritty business of employee accountability.
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