Gary Wolf

Co-Founder, Quantified Self · 1 appearance on the record.

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Gary Wolf is a journalist and researcher who co-founded the Quantified Self movement with Kevin Kelly in 2007, pioneering personal data tracking. Formerly a contributing editor at Wired, he is the author of books including Wired – A Romance.

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Assertion Supported

Gary Wolf: Fitbit Has Well Over 20 Million Active Users

“The market is much bigger, and Fitbit alone, you know, has well over twenty million active users, so this is a lot of people.”

Gary Wolf Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:01 a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking

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Insight

Gary Wolf: Most lifestyle advice is adopted without empirical measurement

“Go to any bookstore, and you'll see shelf after shelf of ideas about things that are supposed to dramatically improve our lives. Most of these ideas are tried without any attempt to carefully measure whether they work for us or not.”

Gary Wolf Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:20 a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking