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When tracking technology misreads human experience

My fitness tracker congratulated me for walking 10000 steps on the day my father died because I was pacing the hospital halls and the cheerful notification made me want to throw it away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Quantified metrics cannot distinguish between different contexts of behavior, creating jarring disconnects between data and lived reality.

Worth thinking about

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