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I always wonder what people would do with this data. I have a more "tears in the rain" approach. I just don't think there is that much value in, say, my old wor

I always wonder what people would do with this data. I have a more "tears in the rain" approach. I just don't think there is that much value in, say, my old workout logs. I cannot see how capturing and analyzing it all would make my life much better. I feel if there was one crazy hack that would, say, make me stronger, the people who's job is to get as strong as possible would have already found it. (It's probably PEDs.)

zimpenfish 2y ago
> I just don't think there is that much value in, say, my old workout logs. To you, perhaps, but witness the excitement of historians and archaeologists when they find things like the Ea-nāṣir complaint[0] or an Akkadian shopping list[1]. You never know what might be interesting to future peoples. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir [1] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/akkadian-cuneiform-tablet-shopping-list-2516004 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/akkadian-cuneiform-tablet-...
nicbou 2y ago
In my case, I use it as an enhanced photo stream slash diary. It let's me see what I was up to on a given day. I see my location, my photos, my diary, my search queries and my transactions, among other things.
joshcanhelp 2y ago
I second both the sibling comments here but I'll add a few things: - Having a detailed meeting and project history from work helps me during interviews, writing resumes, reminding myself of previous approaches. A lot of this comes from detailed note-taking but making connections with people I've worked with, companies I've interacted with, etc adds a lot of color and detail. - In a similar vein, tying together people with contacts (from Google or iCloud), events, and notes helps me be a better friend, neighbor, family member in my personal life. I don't have an excellent memory so I build it out in Obsidian. - I like being able to do simple things like figure out how many bike rides I took since I've been laid off (65 bike rides, totaling over 645 miles and 138,000 feet of elevation gain). Does this all change my life drastically? No but I like the work, I like how present in my life it makes me, and it's fun.

zimpenfish 2y ago

> I just don't think there is that much value in, say, my old workout logs. To you, perhaps, but witness the excitement of historians and archaeologists when they find things like the Ea-nāṣir complaint[0] or an Akkadian shopping list[1]. You never know what might be interesting to future peoples. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nāṣir [1] https://news.artnet.com/art-world/akkadian-cuneiform-tablet-shopping-list-2516004 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/akkadian-cuneiform-tablet-...

nicbou 2y ago

In my case, I use it as an enhanced photo stream slash diary. It let's me see what I was up to on a given day. I see my location, my photos, my diary, my search queries and my transactions, among other things.

joshcanhelp 2y ago

I second both the sibling comments here but I'll add a few things: - Having a detailed meeting and project history from work helps me during interviews, writing resumes, reminding myself of previous approaches. A lot of this comes from detailed note-taking but making connections with people I've worked with, companies I've interacted with, etc adds a lot of color and detail. - In a similar vein, tying together people with contacts (from Google or iCloud), events, and notes helps me be a better friend, neighbor, family member in my personal life. I don't have an excellent memory so I build it out in Obsidian. - I like being able to do simple things like figure out how many bike rides I took since I've been laid off (65 bike rides, totaling over 645 miles and 138,000 feet of elevation gain). Does this all change my life drastically? No but I like the work, I like how present in my life it makes me, and it's fun.