The Dangerous Allure of the Quantified Self
Numbers can inform and motivate us. They can also sabotage our bodies and brains.
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3 min readNov 27, 2020
You can put a number on just about anything health-related these days: not just blood pressure and heart rate but also steps and movement, hours of sleep, time spent in front of a screen, and, yes, calories and weight. (Let’s just state upfront that…
