To answer questions about my life, like
- How does living in different cities affect other factors like fitness, productivity and happiness?
- How does sleep affect my day, my fitness level, and happiness?
- How does the weather, and the different seasons affect my life?
- Are there any trends over the last few years?
- How does computer time, work and hours in meetings affect my personal life?
Key decisions for this project:
- Use a single database, owned and hosted by me, with all the data I've collected over the years
- Be able to easily add and remove questions on the fly, as I learn what's beneficial to track
- Full control of how the data is visualized
- Works well for frequent flyers with mixed time zones
- 100% fully open source, MIT licensed and self-hosted
- The Telegram bot for entering data manually
- The data visualization, check out the results on
- The database info
There are many questions that can be answered using this data, here are some main ones I want to look into over the next few months
- How does the city I'm in influence my level of happiness?
- How does the weather/climate influence my mood
- How does travel affect my mood?
- How do certain macro nutrition goals affect my mood?
- What amount of hours of sleep have the best influence on mood?
- How do certain macro goals influence my lean body mass and fat levels?
- How does my daily kcal intake affect my social life?
- How does alcohol affect my training and fitness progress?
- Do more daily steps influence
- my mood
- the amount of audio books I'm reading
- feeling connected with family & friends as often calling them
- What are the areas in life that suffer while cutting (kcal deficit):
- mood
- stress
- productivity
- energy
- What are the areas in life that suffer when I travel? Investigate:
- fitness progress
- productivity
- stress
- health
- sleep
- feeling connected with friends
- How many hours did I spend on my phone and laptop over the months?
- Do I stick to my yearly book goals and how do other factors influence how much I'm reading?
- Am I more productive when I set the goals for the day the night before?