I think a lot about what it means to be human in a world increasingly determined to measure everything. Sleep scores. Glucose. Heart rate. Steps. Biological age. Productivity. Finances. Screen time. Location. Preferences. Algorithms predicting what we’ll click next. We can measure more about ourselves than at any other point in human history. And yet, I keep coming back to something remarkably simple: I am not my data. The data can teach me about myself. It can help me make b

I have decided that my future AI Life Manager has a lovely European accent. I don't know exactly which country she is from. Somewhere sophisticated, obviously. She is calm, never frazzled, and apparently wakes up before I do. And someday, perhaps not nearly as far in the future as we think, I imagine beginning my morning something like this: Good morning. I hope you slept well. It looks like it will be a beautiful day. You have a fairly light afternoon, and the weather should

I have been thinking about cameras. Which, naturally, has somehow led me to artificial intelligence, privacy, crime, electronic medical records, cheating partners, license plates, Ring doorbells, Blink home cameras, and what on earth our world is going to look like five years from now. Welcome to my brain. 😂 It started with Flock cameras. If you haven't heard about them, they are cameras increasingly being used in communities and public spaces that can capture license plates