Measuring Impact: Where Did My Tax Dollars Go?
Speaking of the current tax reforms debates, let me chime in and share this excellent link to “Where Did My Tax Dollars Go?” visualization tool. Plug in your wages and tax filing status, and see how...
View ArticleQuantified Career: Measuring Your Visibility on Linkedin
Have you ever wondered how “visible” is your profile on Linkedin? Those “Your profile has been viewed by X people in the past Y day” analytical crumbs that Linkedin disperses to those of us with free...
View ArticleQuantified Finance: Tracking Your Expenses in Mint
Personal finance is one of those aspects of our lives where accountability and objective measurement are of outmost importance. Any financial book or blog, whether it is about becoming rich, starting...
View ArticleQuantified Finance: Tracking Your Expenses in Ace Budget
In my previous post, I described my favorite tool for budgeting and tracking expenses, Mint. However, using Mint requires access to the Internet, which may be inconvenient at times. And, of course,...
View ArticleQuantified Career: What’s Your Career Score?
It used to be that the right education, years of experience and simply being good at what you are doing were enough to make a career. But just like the market of consumer goods and services, the...
View ArticleQuantified Finance: Free Alternatives to FICO Credit Score
Your credit score is one of the most widely used quantitative indicators of your creditworthiness. This three-digit number (it ranges between 300-850) is used by financial institutions and businesses...
View ArticleFinancial Fitness Score: A Quantified-Self Alternative to Credit Scores
Lately, I have been thinking about scientifically sound approach to measuring personal financial fitness. By financial fitness, I mean both financial solvency and proficiency: the degree to which...
View ArticleMy Attempt at Tracking Creativity
The pursuit of creativity and self-expression are among the personal values that influence my happiness. Unfortunately, most of the creativity tests that exist today require you to perform certain...
View ArticleTracking Willpower and Self-Restraint
Winslow Strong of Biohack Yourself (check out his awesome blog, by the way!) recently posted a great question on Quantified Self Facebook page, asking about ways to quantify restraint. This is when I...
View ArticleJust Some Fun Stats from My Gmail Meter Report
Just received my July report from Gmail Meter (check out my post about awesome hacks you can do with Gmail data). As you can see, I am not a big fan of long email responses.
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