Quantified Selves

Tell us about yourself, where else we can find you online (personal website, meetup profile, etc), what kind of measurements you're taking. Feel free to create a separate page for your profile under this section.

Justin Wehr

Economist with a background in statistics living and working in Durham, NC. Blogs at Wehr in the World.

For a brief description of the tracking as of Jan 2009, see this blog entry. It includes 35 daily quantitative metrics, qualitative notes, sporadic measurements of vitals, RescueTime (to track time on the computer), Garmin Forerunner 301 personal training device (to track a sample of car trips, walks, and aerobic activities), goals, pool covers, and finances.

Lisa Betts-LaCroix

Homeschooling Parent (previously: coach/consultant, speaker, actor)

Currently tracking: sleep (total duration, interim hours awake), morning weight, daily food, carbohydrate intake, water, alcohol, supplements, medication, day of cycle, sex (incidents), exercise (duration, type), elimination, blood donation (date and quantity), total cholesterol (periodic), blood pressure (periodic)

I have previously tracked my own and client goal realization.

Alexandra Carmichael

Co-Founder, CureTogether
Author, Earth Change

What I track - sleep (sleep time, wake time, quality, naps), morning weight, caloric intake, supplements, mood (average of 3 positive and 3 negative factors on 0-5 scale), time spent working vs. time with kids, number of nursings and night wakings, weather, treatments for vulvodynia, pain of administering treatment (0-5), vulvodynia-related pain (0-5), headache/nausea (0-5), day hosting of cycle, sex (quantity, quality), exercise (duration, type), unusual events (text)

Toli Galanis

Filmmaker, http://bigsight.org/toli_galanis

Currently tracking:  Goals, Physical Health, Media Consumption, Media Production, Expenses, Work, Opportunity Costs, Leisure, Dreams, Mental Processes, Decisons, Knowledge Work.

Gary Wolf

Contributing Editor, Wired; Co-Host, The Quantified Self

Currently tracking: blood pressure, heart rate, time asleep, time awake, sleep quality (1-5), perception of being rested(1-5), mood(1-5), harmony w/spouse(1-5), work hours, coffee and tea consumption.

Here are a few stories I've written that touch on themes of interest to self quantifiers: Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity; Essay Writing Service; Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm; Sir John's Divine Gamble;  Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency