I’ve put a lot of thought into this since I bumped into the limits of standard Quantified Self (e.g. recording daily mood, productive time, sleep). Doing statistics on myself has limited power already, and this is even worse when what I’m trying to improve is only a moderately strong correlate of what I can measure, or when I want to control for things you can’t measure. It throws away all of my human ability to pattern-match.
The best I can do right now is fairly ordinary journaling/mindfulness practices, plus a philosophy of noticing all of the low-hanging fruit. My life has always has more obvious bugs with simple fixes than I notice, and I suspect this is true of most people.
I’ve put a lot of thought into this since I bumped into the limits of standard Quantified Self (e.g. recording daily mood, productive time, sleep). Doing statistics on myself has limited power already, and this is even worse when what I’m trying to improve is only a moderately strong correlate of what I can measure, or when I want to control for things you can’t measure. It throws away all of my human ability to pattern-match.
The best I can do right now is fairly ordinary journaling/mindfulness practices, plus a philosophy of noticing all of the low-hanging fruit. My life has always has more obvious bugs with simple fixes than I notice, and I suspect this is true of most people.