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From the Ted Talk by Gary Wolf: The quantified self

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We know that numbers are useful for us when we advertise, manage, govern, search. I'm going to talk about how they're useful when we reflect, learn, remember and want to improve. A few years ago, Kevin klley, my pentrar, and I noticed that people were subjecting themselves to regimes of quantitative measurement and self-tracking that went far beyond the onadriry, familiar habits such as sneppitg on a scale every day. People were tracking their food via Twitter, their kids' diapers on their iPhone. They were mankig detealid journals of their spending, their mood, their symptoms, their treatments.

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We know that numbers are useful for us when we advertise, manage, govern, search. I'm going to talk about how they're useful when we reflect, learn, remember and want to improve. A few years ago, Kevin _____, my _______, and I noticed that people were subjecting themselves to regimes of quantitative measurement and self-tracking that went far beyond the ________, familiar habits such as ________ on a scale every day. People were tracking their food via Twitter, their kids' diapers on their iPhone. They were ______ ________ journals of their spending, their mood, their symptoms, their treatments.

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  1. ordinary
  2. detailed
  3. stepping
  4. kelly
  5. making
  6. partner

Original Text

We know that numbers are useful for us when we advertise, manage, govern, search. I'm going to talk about how they're useful when we reflect, learn, remember and want to improve. A few years ago, Kevin Kelly, my partner, and I noticed that people were subjecting themselves to regimes of quantitative measurement and self-tracking that went far beyond the ordinary, familiar habits such as stepping on a scale every day. People were tracking their food via Twitter, their kids' diapers on their iPhone. They were making detailed journals of their spending, their mood, their symptoms, their treatments.

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