Jon Ogden
Feb 10, 2021

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I appreciate your series, Bryan, and I think about it a lot.

I do wrestle with this sentence: "Data, not emotions, now manages both my diet and sleep protocols."

Given that our emotions are the result of more than a billion years of evolution, aren't they, too, data?

I worry that measuring my life in a dashboard is an act of externalization, which could cause people to disregard the data their emotions contain.

Put another way: If my emotions are telling me one thing and a dashboard is telling me another, how do I decide which will best optimize my long-term wellbeing?

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Jon Ogden
Jon Ogden

Written by Jon Ogden

Co-founder of UpliftKids.org, a lesson library and curriculum to explore values at home.

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