The document discusses the intersection of personal data, technology, and self-awareness, emphasizing the importance of understanding one's identity through digital footprints. It critiques how modern devices and platforms can lead to disconnection from true self while advocating for ethical design that promotes kindness and deeper human connections. The text highlights the implications of using personal data for behavior change and the notion that our lives are increasingly mediated by technology while urging a return to genuine existence.

1. Quantifying Well-Being

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AGENDA
Time isn’t now, it’s a collection of whens.
EXISTENCE
20%
Mission Review
Timeline of project and
reasons behind our
choices.
Marketplace
Changes to the market
place during our mission.
Disruption
Platform / Experience
review.
Dialog
Feedback and close.
10% 30% 40%
1. Be Still
2. Take a deep breath and now…

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Christopher Matthew Dancy
Pressing Issues
BusinessWeek 2014 Cover
Magazines
BBC, Fox, WSJ
TV, Radio, Movies
25 Countries
Global Press
Wired, NPR, TechCrunch
Tech Press
About Me
“if there is one person qualified to speak for the individuals of the world
on the subject of the quantified self it’s probably Chris Dancy” – March
2015, Wired.

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Post Privacy
None of us are really that interesting.
About Me
• October 11, 1968 at 4:17pm,
along with 10,349 others
• Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
• Charles and Priscilla Dancy
Birth
• WEIGHT: 185
• HEIGHT: 5’11inches,
• BLOOD OXYGEN: 97%,
• BMI: 21.5
• BLOOD PRESSURE: 101/62
• SLEEP: 7.3 hours per night
• MOVE: 26 miles per week
Health
• September 7 2050
• HIV Resistant
• 17.9% Venous
Thromboembolism
• 8.6% Age-related Macular
Degeneration
• .79% Multiple Sclerosis
Death
• $450,000.00 – 2013 – Federal
Income Taxes
• $800,000 – 2014 Home
• $75,000 – 2013 Volkswagen
• Williamson County - #10 for
wealth and health in the USA
Wealth
• 65 degrees
• 55 decibels
• 68.2 degrees
• 43% Humidity
• 30.22 Pressure
• CO2 601 ppm
Environment

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Wellness is designed into our devices.
“Why do we make sure only some devices are charged?”
This is your body
Go to sleep.
This is your device
Go to bed.

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Big Mother – “What you lose shapes you, what you recall creates you.”
Losing everything teaches you to save everything.
1943 1949 1955 1965 1968 1988
JUL SEPT DEC JUN DEC JUN MAY AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
Existence

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Lose yourself -“I grew up in tech, and it almost killed me.”
Losing myself one day at a time.
1998
2000
2001
2003
1998 - Two Packs of cigarettes a day, 280 pounds
Wake up call, my health was starting to fail and I wasn’t even 30 years old.
2000 - Drinking every weekend
To mask my weight and social issues, I started drinking heavily.
2001 - Rock bottom
I write to my mother and ask for help. I tell her I can’t go on, I feel lost and I
don’t know who I am..
2003 – Relationship problems, 290 pounds.
My relationship of eight years starts to suffer.
Existence

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Saved– “They are called senses because you’re suppose to feel them”
The power of perspective, big mother versus big brother.
Boxes
Heavy boxes show up at my home in November
2003.
Christmas morning
Welcome to your life.
My first 30 years
Band-Aids, love letters, pomes, art, repot cards, and
a diary.
Existence

9. EASY EDIT
CHART
Section 06 – Easy Edit Chart
November 4, 2004

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Why big mother? –“We upgraded from freaking out to kindness recently”
Your operating system
You were designed for higher functions.
Ethical design is a choice.
Hug the monkey
Emotions, groups, kindness.
Feed the mouse
Eat, stay safe.
Pet the lizard
Freak out.

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Convenience -“Easy street is paved with your attention and populated with your privacy.”
We design for convenience, not perspective.
Time
1. Entertainment
2. Communications
3. Attention
Identity
1. Narrative
2. Communication
3. Biology

12. “All of humanity's problems stem from man's
inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
- Blaise Pascal

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i-Device– ”I is also the first letter of isolation”
1998, the iMac and a decade of solutions around the individual.
Existence

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SXSW 2012 – “A process framework for awareness isn't’ either”
What did it take to know yourself?
Knowing yourself.
Existence

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SXSW 2015 – “We’ve weaponized identity”
Your health is intimate data, not big data.
Healthkit
“It’s like the ultimate selfie”
Jawbone
“Look at how well I sleep”
Existence

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Big Brother – “Surveillance is state based privacy”
How your world is seen defines your vision.
In the name of safety
Hostage to the self inflected beliefs of nameless strangers.
In the name of intimacy
Capturer to the self inflected desires of names strangers.

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Big Mother – “Sousveillance is Identity based convenience”
The corporatization of your body and home.
Wearing your life on your sleeve
Connecting to everything but yourself.
An apple a day keeps awareness away.
Connecting to everyone, touching no-THING.

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Why did I start this journey?
Nothing has really happened until it’s has been recorded.
Save yourself
We were told to show our work, to save our games,
to document our time.
We live in systems
We live in PC’s, mobile phones, fitness trackers,
smart homes, monitored environments.
We are suffering
We have never had more freedom yet felt so empty,
anxious and busy.
Existence

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Save yourself – “Your past is filled with glorious reminders of your future”
Stoned to death.
1896
Japanese tsunami stone
2011
Japanese tsunami aftermath

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Record and teach.
Removing each other from the story.
700 Years
Mass producing knowledge made it
easier to lose and throw away.
2000 Years
Multiple languages created a great loss
in cultural understanding.
3500 Years
Recording our versions of history.
30,000 Years
Language and learning in the age of
fight or flight.
Existence

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Faster – “Information overload could was a renaissance”
Redundant systems.
100 years
24 x 7 Culture, Globalization.
200 years
Rapid information delivery rise of the
anti-social system.
500 years
Information overload the the
renaissance.
600 years
Distribution of knowledge.
Existence

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Poof – “The average web page is changed or deleted every 100 days”
Easy to save
50 years
First Computer systems.
10 years
First web social networks.
Existence

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Streamed almost live
Easy to consume
2015
We are losing language.
2014
We capture for no one.
2013
We hold nothing.
2012
We rent everything.
Existence

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Recalled and shared
The relentless now.
2015
“It’s not about your activity, it’s about proving you exist.
2015
“We are forced to remember what year it is”
Existence

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We’re dissolving right in front of our own eyes.
Your digital life is a lot like the ark
The ability to save everything has made the value of everything nothing Yes we can stream music, movies and life, but who is watching and how? When you can speed up, slow down,
pause, rewind everything you can’t stand any system that can’t keep up We are becoming a culture of walking web pages, advertising our selves. Now that we can capture share and
throw every detail of our lives online, there is not need to live in anything other than the museum we’ve created.
Existence

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Temporary – “Your life is so ephemeral and intimate you will pay to buy it back”
Why are we buying back our behavior?
January 2015, want to be healthier in the new year? So does Apple. It’s not about food or being active, it’s about remembering who you are!

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2008
The Inner-net
Existence
What if I told you you never had to go offline?
Everything we touch is recorded. Credit cards, club
cards, social sites, searches, car computers, home
utilities. What could we learn if we had access to all our
data, how could it change us?

30. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Five Steps

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Step 1: How am I?
The most intimate of information is stored where and shown to you how?
My chart
Digitized my chart
My notes
Started my own notes
Paper
Could not find answers
Doctor
Didn’t know me.
Existence

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Step 1: The Worried Well.
Shame and fear of not being perfect.
Platforms
Recreate the 1990’s IT department.
Wearable Technology
Measure and shame.
Patient communities
Compare notes.
Big Data
Flu trends
Existence

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Step 1: Changing the future.
Environments shape people, not genes
Genetics
The building blocks.
Microbiomes
The little bits.
Existence

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Step 2: Who am I?
Most people exist in 100-300 different digital systems.
Existence

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Step 3: How do you organize a life?
Who are you?
Soft Data
Core Data
Lab results, Micro biome, genetics.
The “quantified” self.
Hard Data
Wearable, IOT, biological and
environmental data that can’t easily be
manipulated. The “actual” self.
Existence
Digital signature, identity, tastes,
preferences. The “constructed” self.
The “Fluid” self.
Our behavior is made up of many
facets of our digital experience, ranging
from what are preferences are, how our
bodies and environments react to our
genetic code.

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Step 4: Find what’s important.
Easy to collect, categorize, prioritize and transport.
Project
Move my information into a repository
where I can see, search and mine my
information.
Reflect
Prioritize what’s important for me. What
are my basic human needs and how do
they relate to the data I’m creating?
Protect
Categorize my data so it makes sense
and I can see how I spend my time.
Collect
Collect personal data with little
intervention and live my life.
Existence

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Step 5: How do you visualize your time?
Your living behavior is the genetic code for habit change.
Existence
Being able to see, search, mine, toggle and review my time in a calendar, weighted to the type of information and it’s purpose in my life is a break through. Suddenly random interactions
cast a shadow of meaningful insight into your day to day habits. Coincidence becomes opportunities to retool fate to put into motions different versions of a timeline.

38. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Five Lessons

39. THE
POWERPOINT
SLIDE PLUS
Value of Data

40. OTHER SLIDE
CONTACT US
Section 07 – Contact Us / Text Slide
$10,000To know thyself should not be a
financial burden.

41. $20,000Smart homes make you aware,
not comfortable.

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Devices are cheap,
buying me back is
expensive.

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Garish displays of tech wealth are about identity.
iphone
$1000
30,000 dollars to be connected to automation.
Macbook Pro
$1000
Apple watch
a$23,000
Goldmember
I love gold

44. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of Identity

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Measured to death
Life itself can only be found in the data we choose to recall.

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Expectations– “We expect people to be faster and machines to be consistent.”
Changing the way we behave to mimic a desired state, will create a race of robots.
Identity
You auto-complete me.
We act like the internet. We
autosuggest answers to each other.
Consistently
Consistently average beats
occasionally amazing”
Contortion
Dangerous behavior for no
one.
We contort our body to capture
moments.
Judgment
You are the machine.
We change our behavior to avoid
humans, judgment and shame.
Existence

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We are defined by the systems you don’t use.
Tying financial systems to customer service or health may not be the best way forward.
Existence

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Smart Phone Palmistry?
Are you hidden in your device?
Tarot Cards
The future, based on a arbitrarily arrangement of cards, picked by you and
interpreted by someone else.
iPhone Home Screen
Battery percentage, military time, DND, Open space on screen, dock, number of
icons, how they are arranged, arrangement by types, folders, position context, offline
apps, replacement of default apps, settings on the home screen.

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Data exhaust
Your digital behavior is a running car in the garage of your life.
Existence

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We become what
we bend into.

51. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of perspective

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The world revolves around you.
What if I told you there was no spoon?
Environment
Temperature, humidity, UV, sound, air quality, air
pressure, light, radiation.
Routine
Light and sound bring me out of REM sleep.
Existence

53. EASY EDIT
CHART
Section 06 – Easy Edit Chart
You’re not
broken, the
world is.

54. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of Behavior

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Behavior as the interface. “You’re a giant trackpad for your behavior”
Convenience creates atrophy cognitive functions.
pplkpr
Other humans as an Interface via biology
Nest
Your body as the interface to your home
environment.
Automatic
The vehicle as the interface
Luna
Mattress as an interface
Existence

56. “Your life is a
platform”

57. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Value of Feedback

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UI / UX–”Shame should not be a user interface. Suffering shouldn't be a user experience.”
A little perspective applied.
2015
180 pounds
2014
220 pounds
2012
280 pounds
2011
320 pounds
Existence

59. OTHER SLIDE
CONTACT US
Section 07 – Contact Us / Text Slide
“Resilience is the act of
perpetual perspective.”

60. LET’S TALK ABOUT
WHO
WE ARE
Section 01 – About Company / Team / And
Services
Solutions & Implications

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Billions on the ground
Make it easy to review your life.
2015- Under Amour
.5 Billion
2015 – Trip Advisor
200 Million
2015 – Capital One
150 Million
2014 - Facebook
100 million
Existence

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Implications – “The internet of everything”
The corporatization of the individual
2012
IT’S NOT A PHONE
It’s gone from a phone
that takes pictures,
to a camera that makes
calls.
2014
INTERNET TO THE BODY
Apple, Google and
many startup health
organizations map the
human body.
2014
INTERNET TO THE HOME
IOT comes home to
roost as your body
becomes the middle
man.
2013
SMAC vs. SEAM
No more applications!
(Social, Mobile
Analytical, Cloud)
versus (Sensor,
Environment, Algorithm,
Mesh)
Existence

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Implications – “The internet of identity”
Convenience event horizon is reached.
2017
BEHVAIOR AS PLATFORM
Stitching together
predefined behaviors
becomes the platform
for anticipation over
attention.
2018
EXISTENCEAS PLATFORM
Everything starts to
become programmable
and feedback for
everything else. People
and environments merge
into a single routine.
Existence
2015
BODY AS INTERFACE
Services use biological
and environmental
factors as feedback
loops for experience.
2016
ENVIRONMENT AS ANINTERFACE
Devices become
interfaces for each
other and us.

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Implications – “The personalization of things”
Identity, narrative and ownership collide
Existence
IDENTITYAS A PLATFORM
The onslaught of
services catered to our
fluid identity creates a
marketplace for skin
walking devices and
services.
2020
PERSONIFICATION OFTHINGS
We embed identity into
things and services.
2019
HABIT AS A SERVICE
Habits and
environments replace
mainstream
applications as people
choose identity
services over
consumption.
YourBusinessGoals
here

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Ethical design - “We are in a race to the bottom of the brainstem”
Can we design for kindness?
Contemplative Tech
Tech that engenders a deep
caring for others. Deepens
perspective.
Kind Tech
Systems that support a
compassion toward yourself
and behavior.
Value Tech
Systems that expose your
better self and values.
Calm Tech
Calm technology makes use of
our peripheral attention,
allowing us to be aware of
more things with less cognitive
overhead.
Disruptive Tech
Alerts, disturbs, pulls at
attention.
Existence

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Design Trust for Inward compassion.
Awareness
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Human-kindness
Is there a way to use our day to day data to reshape humanity?
Existence
“We need to stop solving human problems
with technology and start solving
technology problems with humanity.”

68. Chris Dancy
Chief Digital Officer, Mindful Cyborg
http://existence.io