{"id":249437,"date":"2020-07-05T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=249437"},"modified":"2020-07-05T07:35:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:35:53","slug":"why-im-anti-quantified-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/05\/why-im-anti-quantified-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Anti Quantified Self"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is official \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the nerds (who feel the incessant need to quantify everything) have hijacked society. Time to take it back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why this is bad <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If Homer were alive today, would we rate his epic poems based on how many likes he got? Or the art work of Picasso<\/a> based on how many followers he had? Or the genius of da Vinci<\/a> based on his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153metrics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d? Of course not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data deification<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Data and numbers are our new god. No numbers, no legitimacy<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is official \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the nerds (who feel the incessant need to quantify everything) have hijacked society. Time to take it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/AB1A9EFA-FD8D-4997-99F2-83C88959D667.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249448,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249437\/revisions\/249448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}