Very notable how bad the lay intuition around blood glucose levels and health thanks to the rise of consumer CGMs This is going to hurt people
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concerning that every time we get a new healthcare wearable that makes a new body function legible (sleep, glucose) the only two reactions are either to try to max it out, or keep it stable as can be. Very few parts of your biology run well in either condition.
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Stability is good for sleep though, no?
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@GreenPlusAnE talks about this quite a bit. It seems like there are much better measures one can use (ie grip strength etc) than what you can get off a wearable.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6778477/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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On the contrary, I think that we’re seeing wearables that do clever bio hacks more and more. NeoSensory for example held hard of hearing people “feel” sounds: https://neosensory.com I think that we’re only beginning to scratch the surface.
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Imo: wearables that make the world legible in in interesting/artistic/grounding ways wearables that make unnecessary body systems easier to monitor and lead to obsessive bad health behavior — not
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“If you want to accelerate someone’s death, give him a personal doctor...access to data increases intervention...” Taleb strikes again!
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