Death of the Quantified Self

It's silly how much we obsess over numbers and metrics these days, to the point that apps love to send us notifications encouraging us to hit an arbitrary number for the sake of engagement and gamification.

Here's a hot take on how we needlessly glorify these made-up statistics and how proudly we'll take them as bragging rights straight to our graves.

Posted on Mar 10, 2019

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