At QS17, “game alchemist” Ellis Bartholomeus will share her quantification of one of the inevitable and unpredictable outcomes of her study of play: scars. Her talk will explore the narrative scars tell us about our bodies and our activities—from fun childhood games to recovery from car accidents.
At QS17, Sara Riggare will share the insights health tracking has allowed her to glean from decades of experience with Parkinson’s.
At QS17, Justin Lawler will share how he uses several biomarkers, including his microbiome and liver metabolites, to manage factors contributing to his osteoporosis.
For Matt Manhattan, what started as an effort to keep track of his electronics turned into a practice spanning his entire material life. Taking inventory of his all possessions ultimately changed the way he thought about his purchases and ended up saving him a substantial amount of money. At QS17, Matt will share what he learned by framing decisions to make new purchases in the context of his past purchases.
At QS17 Amsterdam, Whitney Erin Boesel shares her experience tracking anti-mullerian hormone (AMH) levels, currently considered the “Gold Standard” of women’s fertility, and her successful pregnancy demonstrating the limitations of this fertility metric.
David de Souza is tracking 35 metrics on what he considers the most important areas of his life. His streamlined workflow allows him to record everything from sleep, weight and food intake to productivity, yoga and meditation. At QS17, David will share his dashboard and the correlations he’s drawn between diverse aspects of his behavior.
Today we’re publishing the program for QS17: The Quantified Self Conference, which will be held this year at Casa 400 in Amsterdam on June 17 and 18. Looking over the 60+ sessions, I’m struck again by how different our meetings are. We do some things that are contrary to common sense, and we keep doing…
Environmental disturbances and modern lifestyles can cause people to become out of sync between external time and their body’s internal clock. These disruption of the circadian rhythm can lead to an increase in obesity, diabetes and other life threatening metabolic disease. This review by Hans Reinke and Gad Asher provides an overview on the circadian role in metabolism.
Could a personalized comic strip change the way you see your data? At QS17, Andreas Schreiber, founder of PyData Cologne and the Cologne QS Meetup, will present his Quantified Self comic strips, a technique for making self-tracking easier and more fun.
At QS17, QS Amsterdam meetup co-organizer Joost Plattel will share insights gathered from this project examining his phone use habits.
At QS17, Stephen Cartwright, associate director at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will share the amazing landscape sculptures he has created from self-tracking data.
Laila has been tracking her weight for a few years, and more recently she began tracking other people’s weight and physical variation through her company, Fitnescity. In this video, she talks about her experiment with 3D body models, which is a relatively new way of representing and tracking the human body.
At QS17, “Psychedelics Biohacker” Janet Lai Chang will share the results of over a year’s worth of psilocybin microdosing on her mood, empathy and social interactions.
QS meetups hosted in Manchester, Austin, and Seattle for the week of May 1, 2017.
The Quantified Self group in Prague will be having a meetup this week. The group’s organizer Jan Pavuk, will distill what he learned at the recent BNA Festival of Neuroscience into practical methods and tools that can be used for people’s QS practice. Thursday, April 27 Prague, Czech Republic QS17 To experience more of this…
For the past eight months I’ve been tracking my temperature every minute using small, wireless sensors. I work in a lab that recently showed minute-by-minute body temperature can tell you fascinating things about female physiology, at least in mice. Using temperature, we can tell what day a mouse will ovulate, whether or not it will become pregnant within…
It’s hard for me to like an album the first time I listen to it. I can almost feel some part of my brain reject the music, even from bands I like, because it’s not familiar. However, after a few listens, the album will grow on me and I’ll find myself humming melodies that I…
There is a Quantified Self meetup happening in Portland tonight. Mark Leavitt will present an update to his Health E-Seat project (his office chair is a recliner/recumbent bike hybrid). It will feature some in-progress projects on tracking intentions and recording mood and music. The night will end with a talk about my attempt to apply…
Dublin recently put on a fantastic meeting with a couple of great talks about gut health (which you can watch). They are back at it again, with three speakers on bio-markers related to nutrition. Austin’s theme is nutrition as well, with the main talk on a person’s data collected while losing 95 pounds on a…
Earlier this month, the Quantified Self Dublin group got together for an engaging evening of talks on gut health by members of the local medical community. CDSA Explained Francesco Polito, a nutritional therapist, talked about the markers that are found in a Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis (CDSA). This is a test that he has his clients get…
