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I can tell you from wearing a fit bit for a few years, in my personal experience all it did was increase my anxiety.
by iancmceachern 3y ago
I can tell you from wearing a fit bit for a few years, in my personal experience all it did was increase my anxiety.
- liotier 3y agoI found that even the distance computer on my bicycle was not producing actionable data - only anxiety. Nowadays, I consider non-actionable data as a cost. If it is entertainment, then that is luxury for which I accept the cost. Otherwise, I cut it. I used to love fancy dashboards with everything and extra cheese - not anymore: I try to understand what is input to my actions and what is blinkenlights. With no distance computer on my bicycle, I feel free: I cycle daily wherever I fancy and the numbers don't matter ! I still consider distance at the planning stage but, once I'm on the road I don't want to think about it.
- gnz11 3y agoSame experience. Eventually I realized the data wasn’t providing me anything useful and it was just zapping the fun of being active. When I go outside the last thing I want to be thinking of are metrics and other such self improvement things.