I wonder how much of the underlying “getting the data back out sucks” could be addressed by treating self-observations as metrics and using some backend designed for monitoring tech stacks? For human usage, it’d probably need an app that minimizes the effort of tracking things. However, a general tracking app with a decent api could probably be kludged onto a monitoring-friendly data storage solution with your choice of low-code or no-code tooling. Environmental variables could skip human input, and be automatically recorded from home sensors.
The post I expected from the title was about starting with the list of all possible diagnoses, and identifying all data that could differentiate between them, to establish the maximum that it would be medically useful to track. If I was building for myself, I’d probably try to start with all possible interventions, and go straight to tracking only the necessary information to determine which interventions are likely to make a difference.
I suspect this whole endeavor is an advanced form of one of the reasons that journaling helps people—encouraging us to use our pattern-matching skills in particularly helpful ways.
Thank you for publishing despite the standards worries; I’m glad you did because now I’m thinking about interesting questions that I wouldn’t be if you hadn’t.
I wonder how much of the underlying “getting the data back out sucks” could be addressed by treating self-observations as metrics and using some backend designed for monitoring tech stacks? For human usage, it’d probably need an app that minimizes the effort of tracking things. However, a general tracking app with a decent api could probably be kludged onto a monitoring-friendly data storage solution with your choice of low-code or no-code tooling. Environmental variables could skip human input, and be automatically recorded from home sensors.
The post I expected from the title was about starting with the list of all possible diagnoses, and identifying all data that could differentiate between them, to establish the maximum that it would be medically useful to track. If I was building for myself, I’d probably try to start with all possible interventions, and go straight to tracking only the necessary information to determine which interventions are likely to make a difference.
I suspect this whole endeavor is an advanced form of one of the reasons that journaling helps people—encouraging us to use our pattern-matching skills in particularly helpful ways.
Thank you for publishing despite the standards worries; I’m glad you did because now I’m thinking about interesting questions that I wouldn’t be if you hadn’t.