Health
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The Math of Weight Loss
Manipal Hospital, 2019. Before. The first thing they do, when you are fat and you walk into a doctor’s office, is weigh you. Before asking why you’re there. Before your name, almost. The number on the scale is taken as the answer to every question you haven’t asked yet. Five years ago I went in… Continue reading
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120 Under 120
On Living Forever With Nothing To Do An AI-generated reconstruction of a lunch that had already ended. At a recent family lunch, three generations agreed on exactly one thing: none of us cared for AI. This consensus lasted approximately fourteen minutes, at which point we realised nobody had photographed the food. We had committed the… Continue reading
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User Research, But Make it Metabolic
(Or: What My CGM Taught Me About Human Behaviour) Exhibit A: The humble poha that broke my metabolic heart. The Accidental Field Study Every few months, I run a small, unapproved research project with a sample size of one: me. The apparatus is a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM), a discreet sensor I stick on my… Continue reading
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