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Quantified Self
Last discussed Sep 15, 2026
Movement and community focused on self-tracking and personal data collection
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How the Internet Turned Biohacking Into a Cultural Obsession
Ruby Justice Thelot · Sep 15, 2026
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Tim Ferriss · Apr 29, 2026
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RJ
Ruby Justice Thelot
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"The Fitbit is launched in 2007. That same year Kevin Kelly in Wired says it is the year of the quantified self. And so that idea of the quantified self has been with us for like 20 years. And it was a rather futuristic vision that Kelly had in cal..."
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Tim Ferriss
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vs: Contrasted with current armies of biohackers
"It's kind of quaint how you know I went to the first quantified self meetup and whenever it was 2008 or something with 12 people sitting around in Kevin Kelly's house talking about measuring things with Excel spreadsheets."
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