The all-seeing pen that feeds our need for motivation
We are obsessed with self-quantification in everything from running to handwriting, but Kokuyo’s gadget goes beyond that
AT THE end of a recent Sunday morning run, my companion disgorged a howl of primal rage into the glorious, blossom-kissed Tokyo sky.
He had forgotten, 10 hard kilometres earlier, to hit start on his Strava running app. Our exertions, he mourned, were wasted; the accomplishment hollow; the experience lost like tears in rain. Truly, as Socrates nearly said, the un-Strava-ed life is not worth living.
My friend’s fury is of our times. The cocktail of tech, social media and human competitiveness awakens an obsessive, constant hunger for self-quantification. Particularly where some sort of effort is involved. Measurement is meaning, and we are all trying to feed our step-count rings to get it.
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