There ’s a lot to be say for collecting and salt away data about yourself : it can give you a worthful , objective insight into your day-after-day life . But how much is too much ?
WIRED spoke to Chris Dancy , who like to track his life sentence . Really , seriously , chase his life . From the article :
At the moment , he tracks everything he can , even if he does n’t see an immediate benefit , so long as it ’s relatively leisurely to collect – and he can save the data into Evernote , Google Calendar , and Excel . You never eff when something apparently pointless will follow in ready to hand in the future .
“ If I ’m on a call and my voice gets over 50 decibel , my earpiece notifies me , ” he says . “ My heart rate after a conference call usually can give me better insight into the call and my feelings about the call . ”
There are two school of thought here . One could argue that if you ’re going to log personal data , you may as well persevere every scrap you could . Another might argue that this kind of data capture is so insanely neurotic that it ’s unhealthful . What do you conceive ? Is there such a affair as too much ? And if so , what is it ? [ WIREDviaFlowing Data ]
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