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Know Thyself

The eternal quest for self knowledge has entered the realm of cold data collection: statistics to make our personal lives more calculable and efficient.

The eternal quest for self knowledge has entered the realm of cold data collection: statistics to make our personal lives more calculable and efficient. “The imposition, on oneself or one’s family, of a regime of objective record keeping seemed ridiculous. A journal was respectable. A spreadsheet was creepy. And yet, almost imperceptibly, numbers are infiltrating the last redoubts of the personal.”


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