Your body knows what it wants. What to eat, how much to eat, how much to sleep, rest, play, etc.

Sensors / wearables are a psyop to make you tolerate living in conditions that flood the zone physiologically

Doubling down on this take with a follow-up — you can listen to the land as well, and it will tell you exactly what it needs and what it is experiencing. Indigenous people and animals are able to do this by nature

It requires being still, but if you can learn how to listen, you will be able to navigate large climactic shifts

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I think both of your takes are defensible if you are living in harmony with your body and the land

almost no one is though—we sit for 8 hours a day hunched over a desk staring at artificial light in urban environments

in that context I can see the use for external signals

ideally people are able to shift their environments but reality is it's hard

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"shows me that there's a lot of trauma around health and being told what to do" 💯, an understatement if anything

going back to your original point that "Sensors / wearables are a psyop." while i don't disagree that a lot of "AI coaching" type stuff is slop at best, i'd push back to say that sometimes we need to learn how to speak *with* our bodies again. we are a mishmash of components with different signals for communicating, and all of this changes with age too. something that wasn't relevant when we were teens can become acute in our 40s and we have to figure it out all over again (and again, and again).

sensors/metrics can help us notice when we're miscommunicating with our bodies, like a census or a town hall.

related blog post i wrote recently: https://shazow.net/posts/conditioning/

Agree with this take, and had a similar convo with @shazow.eth yesterday

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I’d read it — basically a follower already

On one end luddite, on the other end cryptographic technology brother

I have a big poast brewing in my head titled "barbell accelerationism" on the fundamental tension here between adopting new technology without losing your body / soul

Agree with this take, and had a similar convo with @shazow.eth yesterday 

https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth/0x7f33dc48