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I Built an App to Hack My Health Using Data from My Garmin, and It Changed Everything
- The author, a tech enthusiast, realized the limitations of various wearable devices in providing meaningful health insights despite collecting vast amounts of data from devices like Whoop, Oura Ring, Apple Watch, and Garmin.
- Feeling trapped in the 'quantified self trap,' drowning in data but lacking actionable insights, the author developed a new approach focusing on leading behaviors rather than lagging indicators.
- By creating a framework with North Star Goals, Lagging Indicators, Leading Behaviors, and Contextual Activities, the author aimed to understand how daily behaviors impacted health outcomes.
- Using tools like Tally, Airtable, Zapier, Google Docs, and Google Slides, the author built Echo as an MVP to track behaviors and correlate them with health metrics for insightful analysis.
- Through structured experiments and correlation analysis, the author uncovered personal insights, such as the impact of alcohol on HRV, the significance of morning walks on weight loss, and the correlation between travel habits and fat gain.
- The author's Echo system led to significant realizations and better decision-making, prompting friends to adopt similar tracking methods and considering turning Echo into a comprehensive app for broader use.
- Future plans for Echo include direct wearables integration, a smart journal tailored to individual goals, a coaching layer, and monthly reports aimed at translating data into actionable insights for behavior change.
- The motivation behind building Echo lies in helping individuals overwhelmed by data make informed decisions for better health outcomes through clarity, simplicity, and self-reflection.
- Echo strives to leverage personal data to empower individuals to make positive changes towards their health goals by providing meaningful insights and actionable direction.
- Early testers interested in leveraging their wearable data for health insights and behavior change are encouraged to sign up for Echo's personalized journal and monthly insight reports for a more proactive approach to health tracking.
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