Quantify self

Absrtact: More than a year ago, the quantization ego became crazy in America. The data such as talk time, running time, deep sleep time, reading amount and so on have been painstakingly recorded by wearable equipment, and it seems that everyone is trying to figure out their daily life

More than a year ago, the quantization ego became crazy in America. The data such as talk time, running time, depth of sleep, reading, etc. and so on are recorded by wearable devices, and everyone seems to be trying to figure out their daily life.

But at that time I did not really understand the "quantification of ego" charm, until I bought a bracelet, but also persuaded the friends around the purchase, only to discover its interesting.

Here's a little story. After I persuaded my friend to buy the bracelet, she told me a few days later she was too fond of the sleep-recording function of the hand-ring, and I asked her curiously why, after all, to record the length of the deep sleep was only to know if I had slept well last night, but even if I knew that the length of my sleep last night was less than half of the total time, I don't seem to be able to do anything to improve it.

But my friend and I said that there is a sleep theory that people can put deep sleep time as far as possible to compress into a concentrated time period, and shallow sleep almost no help to the human body, so you can not shallow sleep straight up. She said she was a very annoying person, because sleep is a waste of time to delay her busy things, so she needs a bracelet to tell her how to compress their sleep time, reduce meaningless shallow sleep.

It's amazing, isn't it? The original quantification of self can also help her to "buy time", this is really what I had never thought before.

Coincidentally, today Wired also has an article on the quantification of Self will change the enterprise staff "time management" way to change the future of the enterprise. The purport of this article is that with the popularity of wearable equipment and quantified self technology, its use will not only be limited to the feedback of individual health status, it will also be used in enterprise, and human analysis technology together (arranges analytics), to improve the time management of staff to optimize the process of work.

For example, through NFC and micro-sensors, you can measure employees ' handling of mail, working with others, chatting with co-workers, and the amount of time spent on the road as he goes to a meeting, when data is collected every day and the chart forms a personal report, will allow employees to know where they are doing less efficiently, Not properly assigned to improve your efficiency and personal performance.

A recent study published by the World Economic Forum (economic Forum) also supports this view and forecasts. WEF's report says the connectivity growth of new technologies and large data (increased connectivity through new technologies and big Data) will generate 14.4 trillion of business value for global industries, which will come from employee productivity, asset utilization, and creativity.

It seems that as people get used to quantifying themselves to understand their own body data and adjust their habits, their work habits and efficiency will be quantified and transformed. I'm looking forward to seeing the Chinese technology companies that are willing to eat crabs first.