QS: The Big Picture | Your Input Requested

[Ken Snyder]

Folks,

I'm putting together a presentation for Saturday's event and wanted to give you the opportunity to influence me. :^) The format of the presentation is still taking hold but please send me your thoughts on:

• What are the big "topics" in your mind in Self-Hacking/QS today?
• Are there any macro measurement frameworks that you use to organise your thoughts?
• If you were to describe the "average person" at QS to a stranger I think we'd all struggle as there are so many "types"; do you have a view on the "types" of people that are a part of QS? Do you see new groups arriving into this audience over time? 
• If you imagine yourself a pundit, what do you think are the major changes we'll see in the next 3 years? The next 10?

I'm still brainstorming so any ideas are good ideas but to be helpful they'll need to come in sooner rather than later. Thanks in advance.

Ken

p.s. feel free to just send to me directly (k...@ken.net) unless you think the broader group would benefit from seeing/reacting to it

[Bruce Hellman]

Hi Ken

Looking forward to Saturday, should be a great day.

I think the key is how to make QS mainstream.  Most of us are 'early adopters' of QS and related technologies.  The big challenge and area of change for the next 3 years is how to make QS relevant, useful, fun and engaging for the majority of people.

We talked a bit about this at the Digital Shoreditch festival last week.  I've attached my slides so you can see where we were going with this train of thought.  

The tools and technologies have to be designed from the perspective of the end user - not tech looking for a problem to solve.

Thanks

Bruce

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[Steve Souza]

I think a big challenge is to bring what are currently seperate tracking technologies and proprietary software and data formats into a more holistic solution that allows for ease of use and looking for correlations across data sets.  And of course ease of use improvements are important. 

[Damian Helme]

Why do we 'quantify' ourselves? To improve our lives in some way? If so, how successful are we? 

What's the relationship between the quantified experience of the self and the qualitative experience of the self? Is one driving the other, if so, which one? 

[Simon Frid]

Why do quantify ourselves?

To find love. To find ourselves. And To be free.