Gary Wolf: Most lifestyle advice is adopted without empirical measurement
Gary Wolf · a16z Podcast | On Wearables, Quantified Self, and Biohacking · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:20
Gary Wolf, co-founder of the Quantified Self movement, explains why continuous individual tracking is necessary to validate popular health and lifestyle claims.
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“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.”
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