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

There are things about ourselves we choose to know, things we would rather not know, and things we don't even realize are available for us to know. Genetics can fall somewhere in the middle. Some people are eager to know everything their DNA might reveal. Others understandably wonder whether knowing would simply give them something else to worry about. I understand both perspectives. But I have come to see genetic information somewhat differently. I don't think of it as a pre