The great thing about health wearables is that when you feel terrible you can look at graphs to confirm that you do indeed feel terrible
@jonty I don't know how Garmin construct their Body Battery metric but it is scarily accurate for me
@jonty ngl, I use that when I feel like I'm getting sick to confirm, and also use it to see whether it'll be over soon.
@jonty This is totally me. Wake up feeling shit. Check watch. Yup, had shit sleep. And the circle continues.
@jonty My favourite thing is that consistently a few days before I get ill my watch will tell me I had way more breathing disturbances than usual while sleeping... and I will ignore that and then be surprised when I get ill in a few days.
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@Documentally @jonty tbf, mine is like perfect (sorry) and yet I still wake up feeling like shit, every single day. I don't drink (hardly), I work out, recommended steps, protein track, lift weights, prioritise sleep, bmi 21 and don't hang out with assholes. I think it's just midlife, you know? I'm exhausted, I'm grumpy, and I have no more metrics to perfect 😪
@Documentally @jonty oooo your going toooooo. Literally everyone I know is going wth.
@jonty @Documentally @Thayer for me it's great up until I have to load up the car (or van). then I'm like "damnit, why do *I* have to be future Graham?"
but then I get to EMF and it's like WOOOOOO TIME TO RUIN MY BODY FOR A WEEK IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE
@jonty I will bring you hash cakes and mushroom tea. It will be very very fine :) You are of course, amazing for doing this. I did one thousand+ person event ONCE and it was enough to put me off for a lifetime. You are a true hero. / @Documentally
@misingtale @Thayer An incredible team of over 300 people, and those are just the people working on it before the event!
@gsuberland @jonty @Thayer i’ll be travelling internationally to get there this year. I think it’s about seven hours from Scotland :-)
@Documentally @Thayer It's funny that I used to really stress about getting press because we were perpetually worried about not selling enough tickets and going bankrupt.
Now I actively *avoid* press because we don't want even more demand for tickets.
@Documentally @jonty I have now managed to get a ticket for one of my teen offspring. So yeah, you're fucked now. Apologies. A double genetic-Thayernating. Be afraid.
@Documentally what is your village (I believe this is the correct way to ask folks where they reside) and how old are your smalls? My small that I'm bringing is very nearly 15 and 6ft. Currently excited to make a mechanical keyboard to use with his emfbadge..
@Thayer I’ll be in the van near the family area and the kids in tents 17 & 14
@Documentally so because I have a kiddo with me do I need to only camp in family areas, or does no one mind? I don't mind. He's a loveable dork and I'm his mother so you know, nothing and no-one can freak him out. But more to protect those who don't have kids or want to be near them? or is it just a big mixed fam?
@Thayer @Documentally nobody could care less. Camp wherever you like, everyone will be fine (assuming he’s not going to get up at 5am and start bawling but that seems… unlikely at his age)
@Thayer the only reason I hang out in the family area is because it’s quiet. But I am in a van this time round and there’s only one place to park them. To be honest I spent very little time anywhere near the tent.. there was too much to see and do :-)
@Thayer @Documentally family camping is very much “here is a place as far from the noise as possible so you can maybe get the kids to sleep” rather than a ghetto for anyone under 18.
@Thayer @Documentally if the suns not coming up yet it’s not bedtime.
@Thayer @Documentally (this is maybe less true now I’m doing it with a 12 year old in tow, who regrettably hasn’t yet learned the joy of sleeping in)
also tends to have crying babies etc - you may find a better night sleep elsewhere, depending on how you sleep!
@thechaoszone @jon @Thayer Weird. Never heard crying babies there. Must have been unconscious. :-)
@andrew I have no idea how Oura get the insights they do from so few sensors but it seems like witchcraft