Adriana Lukas's Library tagged self-hacking →  View Popular, Search in Google

statistics lifehacker fitbit data self-hacking Quantified-Self

fascinating...

self-hacking Quantified-Self blood test health science DNA genome

oxygen exercise health self-hacking Quantified-Self

pretty cool, eh

quantifiedself self-hacking cartoon sketching sxsw

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. 

programmable self o'reilly radar self-hacking motivation hacks quantifiedself

I suppose a good sign the Economist is writing about this even if the whole article is yet again taking the angle of 'how odd, freaky, geeky but interesting things these people are doing'. Obviously, that's considered de rigueur with such topics these days. That said, the health angle is well justified, though until self-quantifying demand side is trying to get the supply side (i.e. healthcare industry) to work with them, it's not going to get very far. Ditto for not focusing on more sophisticated data analysis and visualisation.

economist self-hacking Quantified-Self health technology geeks data analysis

worth watching

medical device science science fiction technology self-hacking

secret technology semantic intelligence computing self-hacking

research data analysis science tricoder self-hacking

research siliconvalley data analysis labs science self-hacking tricoder

pharmacies sensors pills self-hacking medicine health Quantified-Self

health iphone app crowd diet food data self-hacking

self-hacking Quantified-Self health analysis tracking medical

google spreadsheets fitbit data export hack self-hacking Quantified-Self

Testing this in the next few days. Looks like simple idea well executed. 

Software monitor light display sleep cycle self-hacking

self-hacking data ownership body Quantified-Self health software decision

science self-hacking Quantified-Self conference Guardian

path techcrunch health Quantified-Self self-hacking sleep social network

not sure I understand at all what the author is saying in the bit that quotes me or indeed about the meta level. I am no stranger to meta stuff myself but fail to grasp the meaning of that here. My concern is simple, though not easy - data literacy, individual autonomy expressed as ability to better understand ourselves and improve our lives as we see fit.

self-hacking meta quantifiedself autonomy

very cool

self-hacking Quantified-Self backpain health