Self-Tracking Quotes

I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.

I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.

We are moving closer to a future where quantified lives will become the norm.

My fear is that many institutions will eventually alter how they treat people who refuse to self-track. There are all sorts of political and moral implications here, and I'm not sure that we have grappled with any of them.

Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

Self-tracking using a wearable device can be fascinating.

I roll my eyes at the grandstanding blowhards who have 'fixed' themselves, but I keep up with the gizmos and apps that track people's various rhythms. I'm no lifelogger or body-hacker, but I'm curious, and I want to be in-tune enough to know what's really the matter so I can level up and be at my most awesome.

I went through a lot of my life not being mindful of how I was living it. I wasn't mindful environmentally, or whether I was on track.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

I journal at the end of every day and just keep track of how things are going.