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Boston Quantified Self Meetup #1 recap
The first quantified self meetup in Boston happened on March 3, 2010. It took place at sprout’s offices in Somerville.
We had about 25 people come, and excitingly, 8 speakers. This was quite a surprise to me — I started organizing the quantified self in Boston because while I am deeply interested in the QS approach [...]
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american meditation (on gretchen rubin and the insight meditation practice of labeling.)
I read “Gretchen Rubin’s” The Happiness Project a few weeks ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. The book details a year-long project she undertakes, keeping an increasingly large set of resolutions inspired by all kinds of literature on happiness, adding in a new theme each month, in an attempt to discover what will make her happier.
From [...]
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headrest design
I thought this was an interesting anecdote from Esther Gokhale, via her forum:
“Here’s an interesting note from a talk I gave recently at Johnson’s Controls in Ann Arbor (they make most of the car interiors in existence). The audience of 25 engineers included their ergonomics specialist. Every time I registered a complaint about some aspect [...]
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tracking the spine — first post
My friend Aaron Waychoff and I are starting a project to track the curvature in his spine. We are taking weekly pictures of him in front of a graph:
and using that — knowing the size of the squares (four inches on a side) to measure and track the curvature in his back. He’s going to [...]
body narratives — on the alexander technique
For context: I am going to start writing again. I’m sort of at a loss about how much to write, or how polished, or for whom, or about what. My interests lately feel like they span how people learn, how people work, the human body, and spirituality. I’m not quite sure how to draw a [...]
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diyHealth
I haven’t posted in a while here! I will probably resume in a month or two. In the time being, I’ve been working on sprout (sproutward.org) and researching my health. I’ve had neck problems for 3 years, but they’re finally fading out. It’s incredibly exciting. I’ve been working really closely with Esther Gokhale (www.egwellness.com) for [...]
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empowering my father
I’ve recently started working on a new project, called Sprout. The core idea is it’s a community workshop and center where people can come and get the social and technical resources they need to turn their ideas into reality. We’re specifically focusing on ideas that support the local community: we want people to both address [...]
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my own experiences learning: part 2, TAing at MIT.
The other big experience that shaped how I view educational systems was being a TA at MIT. On the whole it was a really disheartening experience. I believe that is much harder and more worthwhile to construct a healthy system — be it educational or otherwise — than critique an existing, failing one, and so [...]
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quantified self boston #2 recap