Agaricus

Random and untidy. Cloned at and sometimes elsewhere.

[Agaricus @agaricus]

Powell's is stocking an actual physical hardback copy of The Quantified Self at the flagship store on Burnside. Somebody go buy it! (I'd don my old white "Powell's Loves Reedies" t-shirt to celebrate if it hadn't been reduced to tattered shreds over the years.)
https://t.co/gJSRdzHHEX
#bookstore #Portland #quantifiedself #Reed

[Agaricus @agaricus]

This week's parasite defense: vegetarianism, static sites.

[Agaricus @agaricus]

@literalbanana Fascinating to read the comments. Confusion reigns. A thoughtless mix of human and non-human text yields results ranging from inelegant to incomprehensible. And this is presumed to be pretty much okay because... nobody reads them anyway.

[Agaricus @agaricus]

New York friends - this is tonight. Social hour 5 pm, talk at 6, then Q&A. #quantifiedself #nytech #nycstartup
https://t.co/V1btjpcaW7

[Agaricus @agaricus]

Details for the QS Show&Tell tonight in NYC.

[Agaricus @agaricus]

Three #quantifiedself events in New York this week:

Tue 10/13, 6:30pm: QS Show&Tell, Civic Hall, Union Square
Wed 10/14, 7pm: with Nicholas Thompson at Columbia. Free, register by tonight
Thu 10/15, 7pm: Startup Grind chat with Joshua Ness, Civic Hall

https://t.co/EEYm2SvJ48

[Agaricus @agaricus]

Tonight @kevin2kelly and I are talking about #quantifiedself at Book Passage in San Francisco. 5:30 pm. Free, no registration. I'll be signing books. We're going to Harrington's Pub on Front Street after.

[Glen Lubbert @glenlubbert]

The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe from @agaricus arrived!

The @quantifiedself Bay Area meetups were hugely influential for me. Looking forward to digging into these stories …and revisiting my own 2015 QS talk along the way.

[Agaricus @agaricus]

Nice photo!!!

[Richard Sprague @sprague]

Just got my copy of @agaricus new book! First impression: way more practical than I expected. Tips and hands-on experiments for better sleep, digestion, skin health, etc. More how-to guide than history or theory.

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

18 years ago Gary Wolf @agaricus and I launched the Quantified Self (QS) movement, which is still going. Gary finally wrote a book detailing what we have learned so far, and on Thursday, October 8, 5:30 PM at the Book Passage in the Ferry Building San Francisco, he and I will introduce his book and do a classic QS show and tell session. Sign up here: https://t.co/WfZnwiSJEq

[Agaricus @agaricus]

After 18 years of research and 2 years of writing, our book on The Quantified Self is out today. https://t.co/AkYQbB1kBS #quantifiedself

[Agaricus @agaricus]

The outcomes episode
https://t.co/A0XWBuJkXh

I’ve read most of the papers I could find comparing self-tracking to normal care. The verdict is: Maybe?

We know that thinking is generally a good approach to problem-solving. And empirical observation is an important tool for thinking. Why is there such scant evidence it works in healthcare at the individual level?

[Agaricus @agaricus]

Oura Builds a Moat
https://t.co/k6pMBcKnEd

[Agaricus @agaricus]

QS Show&Tell meetings are back. Steven Dean is organizing one for NYC in celebration of the book launch.
https://t.co/DBsvLt3Erc

[Agaricus @agaricus]

@andy_matuschak A few possibly relevant thoughts about that here: https://t.co/fyfmU7bA1F

[Agaricus @agaricus]

In the spring of 2000, I got an assignment to go talk with Christopher Alexander at his rented house on Shasta Street in Berkeley, about a half hour walk from campus. The exterior was pink and dusty, the interior a desperate mess, and I felt an immediate sympathy for this stout and rumpled genius, who talked with me in an oversize blue shirt hanging loose and bare feet... Perhaps “talked with me,” is too gentle. He felt I needed firm correction. He’d read something I’d written about Rem Koolhaas and called it immoral. I didn’t like that. I said I’d neither excused nor glamorized. He made a sound of pain. He compared Koolhaas to Adolf Eichmann and asked: “Can one write objectively about such a person?” He had serious doubts about me, and before we agreed to talk more he wanted to understand where I was really coming from. That made sense. But in the next hours, he elicited very little information because he spoke without interruption. More here: https://t.co/0tGAJb2tZb