Powell's is stocking an actual physical hardback copy of The Quantified Self at the flagship store on Burnside. Somebody go buy it! (I'd don my old white "Powell's Loves Reedies" t-shirt to celebrate if it hadn't been reduced to tattered shreds over the years.)
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#bookstore #Portland #quantifiedself #Reed
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New York friends - this is tonight. Social hour 5 pm, talk at 6, then Q&A. #quantifiedself #nytech #nycstartup
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Three #quantifiedself events in New York this week:
Tue 10/13, 6:30pm: QS Show&Tell, Civic Hall, Union Square
Wed 10/14, 7pm: with Nicholas Thompson at Columbia. Free, register by tonight
Thu 10/15, 7pm: Startup Grind chat with Joshua Ness, Civic Hall
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Tonight @kevin2kelly and I are talking about #quantifiedself at Book Passage in San Francisco. 5:30 pm. Free, no registration. I'll be signing books. We're going to Harrington's Pub on Front Street after.
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Just got my copy of @agaricus new book! First impression: way more practical than I expected. Tips and hands-on experiments for better sleep, digestion, skin health, etc. More how-to guide than history or theory.
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After 18 years of research and 2 years of writing, our book on The Quantified Self is out today. thequantifiedself.substack.c… #quantifiedself
The outcomes episode
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I’ve read most of the papers I could find comparing self-tracking to normal care. The verdict is: Maybe?
We know that thinking is generally a good approach to problem-solving. And empirical observation is an important tool for thinking. Why is there such scant evidence it works in healthcare at the individual level?
QS Show&Tell meetings are back. Steven Dean is organizing one for NYC in celebration of the book launch.
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In the spring of 2000, I got an assignment to go talk with Christopher Alexander at his rented house on Shasta Street in Berkeley, about a half hour walk from campus. The exterior was pink and dusty, the interior a desperate mess, and I felt an immediate sympathy for this stout and rumpled genius, who talked with me in an oversize blue shirt hanging loose and bare feet... Perhaps “talked with me,” is too gentle. He felt I needed firm correction. He’d read something I’d written about Rem Koolhaas and called it immoral. I didn’t like that. I said I’d neither excused nor glamorized. He made a sound of pain. He compared Koolhaas to Adolf Eichmann and asked: “Can one write objectively about such a person?” He had serious doubts about me, and before we agreed to talk more he wanted to understand where I was really coming from. That made sense. But in the next hours, he elicited very little information because he spoke without interruption. More here: thequantifiedself.substack.c…
Episode 2 of the Quantified Self Podcast: "Epistemic Agency." With Sara Riggare, Steven Jonas, Thomas Blomseth Christiansen, and Jakob Eg Larsen. thequantifiedself.substack.c…
Excerpt: "I had a chance to work with the great designer Paul Sahre..."
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Took a tour of social accounts to try to see where to post news of the new quantified self book, Substack, and archive, and eventually decided "everywhere but the Facebook group." (Do not try that one.) Here's our new hub: thequantifiedself.substack.c… @quantifiedself
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"“Gas Town is an industrialized coding factory manned by superintelligent chimpanzees, and when they feel like it, they can wreck your shit in an instant.”
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