• Sketchnote of my self-hacking talk at SXSW

  pretty cool, eh

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• The rise of programmable self – O’Reilly Radar

  Acknowledges that QS is mainly about the quantification aspect, gathering data and analysing them, often minimally. It’s about motivation hacks, i.e. constructing situations, triggers, rewards and punishments in ways that maintain one’s motivation. Things like broadcasting your diet adherence or not to your friends (Twitter, G+, Facebook), getting a reward (HealthRally.com) giving up something as a punishment for not sticking to a commitment (Stickk) or even monetary loss (GymPact). It seems a bit aggressive though no doubt it works often enough. Programmable self uses social pressure as a default motivational hack, which in my opinion leaves little room for further data analysis. 
  Self-hacking is different in that it relies mostly on one’s understanding of behaviour, though observation, patterns, correlation and self-awareness. Another terms often used for this is personal feedback loop. Behavioural psychologists tell us that this is not enough to change one’s behaviour despite our best efforts, in which case there’s nothing to stop us from using motivational hacks. It is the layer of pattern-spotting and self-awareness that important in self-hacking as it insists on autonomy of the individual wanting a change of behaviour. 
  People use all of the above terms – quantified self, programmable self, self-hacking interchangeably. This is a fairly new trends or at least fairly newly visible and so this is the time to make such distinctions. 

  tags: programmable self o’reilly radar self-hacking motivation hacks quantifiedself

• Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life

  tags: life analytics quantifiedself wolfram data quantified self personal self-awareness

• From encryption to darknets: As governments snoop, activists fight back

  tags: encryption governments darknet security online internet phone cryptography

• Data glove could help diagnosis and treatment of arthritis (Wired UK)

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  •  the glove could replace the current “labour intensive” ways in which patients’ progress is recorded. Ultimately it is hoped to lead to better treatment as well as savings for medical services. ”If patients are to receive the care needed to manage their condition and doctors the time to assess their condition thoroughly,” Curran says, “more accurate and less laborious methods to record joint movements are needed.”

• Nazi rules for jazz performers – Boing Boing

  tags: nazi rules jazz performers authoritarian control interesting history

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