Andrew Boardman

The promise of quantified self is that if you can measure it, you can manage it. But there’s a trap buried in that logic. Measurement is selective. The smartwatch tracks what’s easy to quantify. Heart rate? Yes. Stress? Only as a proxy. Joy? No chance.

If you look at the world, basically after the industrial revolution we could set a certain course for the information age, or AI age. We are moving so fast in so-called technology because that generates a huge profit and can dominate in many ways for profit making. Humanity is the fast-deteriorating area, much worse than the so-called environment r... See more

Mistakes are little windows into what is possible.

I feel glamour and danger belong in art.

“None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth you're carrying in your heart like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There's no time for anything else.”

― Nanea Hoffman

And I increasingly think our job, maybe our method of rebellion, is to be people who care, who have taste, who like and share and look for good things, who read and watch and look at those things on purpose instead of just staring slackjawed at whatever slop is placed between the ads they hope we won’t really notice.

You know, the majority of the universe is this substance that we can't quite figure out or measure or understand. Maybe that's kind of a reflection of what we are, mostly nonexistent or immeasurable. There's a kind of vacuum to existence: The things that we don't see, that we can't feel, that we can't measure, are most important, and the physical w... See more

There are three surprises about change:

1. What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.


2. What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.


3. What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

For anything to change, someone has to start acting differently.