QUANTIFYING MY MENTAL AND EXPERIENTIAL STATE

Tahl Milburn

November 2016

Quantified Self Meetup

“If your life is burning well, poetry

is just the ash.”

--Leonard Coen

My name is Tahl Milburn (biz@tahl.net)

I’m the creator of LIAM, the Life Automation system.

I’m also the CTO of a digital wellness startup.

LIAM HAS THREE DIMENSIONS

LifeChronicle™ Chronology of my life

LifeState™ Current state of my life

LifeConsole™ Planning & control of my

life (e.g., home auto)

STATUS OF EACH DIMENSION CAN BE QUANTIFIED

LifeChronicle™ 6860 days * Past

LifeState™ LifeScore 92 * Present

LifeConsole™ (tbd) Future

* As of 14-Nov-2016

TODAY’S TALK TOUCHES ON LIFESTATEDIMENSION; BASED ON A MODEL

Personal

Functional

Interactional

Life

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THE STATE OF A LIFE (I.E., LIFESTATE) CAN BE DESCRIBED BY ITS 9 ELEMENTS

Physical Mental Spiritual

Assets Vocation Interests

Experiences Relationships Community

Life

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LIAM CURRENTLY ADDRESSES 6 ELEMENTS; 2 TOUCHED ON TODAY

Physical Mentaldiscussed today

Spiritual

Assets Vocation Interests

Experiencesdiscussed today

Relationships Community

Life

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EACH LIFESTATE ELEMENT IS REPORTED DESCRIPTIVELY PLUS IT HAS A “SCORE”

This score is weighted, added to other elements and my

“LifeScore” is the sum

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Physical Mental Spiritual

Assets Vocation Interests

Experiences Relationships Community

Formatted Scored as

• Know the state of my life at a glance

• It’s easy to see when something major has changed

• It motivates me to improve the score

Various graphs

Home page

Granceable

devices

WHY HAVE A LIFESCORE?

MY LIFESTATE ELEMENTS AND LIFESCORE OVER TIME

One day

(Actual data)

Let’s next talk about the Mental element

of LifeState

STATE OF MIND CAN BE DESCRIBED BY 3 THINGS; EACH CAN BE MEASURED

1. What I know *

2. What I think *

3. What I feel

My Mental Self

* Not yet implemented

MOST BASIC WAY OF MEASURING FEELING IS BY VALENCE

Tahl, how’s

it going?

The DOW hit

50000! I’m

great! (+2)

Oh, my toe

hurts. (-1)

I’m good.

What are you

up to? (+0)

I CAPTURE MY VALENCE (AND OTHER BITS) 1+ TIMES A DAY

I use a website, mobile app, WiFi connected

device or 3G connected device.

(Note: My company provides this technology)

MY VALENCE FROM THE LAST 60 DAYS LOOKS LIKE THIS

Example: Mother serious health issuesDiamonds

indicate

associated words

Moving average

shows me a trend

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MANY ANALYTICS ARE PRODUCED AS WELL

Analytics include:

mean, volatility, trend (7d,

21d), match to standard

distribution, and others

(all actual data)

EACH ANALYTIC PRODUCES A SCORE

Each analytic is also scored,

weighted and totaled for an

overall score

(all actual data)

THAT WAS HOW I MEASURE THE MENTAL...

(Actual data)

Let’s next talk about the Experiential

element of my LifeState

STATE OF EXPERIENCES CAN BE DESCRIBED BY 5 THINGS; EACH CAN

BE MEASURED

1. Where I have experiences

2. How I spend my time

3. What I do (categorically)

4. What is significant

5. Who participates

My Experiential Self

Note: These correspond to five of the six interrogatives.

WHERE I SPEND MY TIME...

IT’S ALMOST 100% AUTOMATIC

Determined by:

1. Authorization status of my home (or cabin)

2. Both vehicles have trackers

3. Phone has tracker plus all pics have embedded GPS

4. Sign-in to my website (with browser location enabled)

IT SUMMARIZED AND LOCATED ON A MAP

MEASUREMENT IS COMPARING ACTUAL TO TARGET

Determined by:

1. Home too much?

2. Not traveling enough? Too much?

3. How much diversity in the travel locations?

4. Etc

HOW I SPEND MY TIME

This is a typical

day.

It shows percent

of hour spent by

broad category of

activity.

HOW DOES LIAM KNOW...

• I’m asleep? Fitbit, I

say goodnight

• Recreation?

Recreational tasks,

use of DVD player

or console, etc.

• Office? Sent

email, call, office

task, etc.

HUMANS SLEEP TOO MUCH!

I particularly pay attention to time spent

sleeping as a breakout

TODAY WAS AN OVERVIEW OF LIAM AND SOME DETAIL ON LIFESTATE DIM

Physical Mental Spiritual

Assets Vocation Interests

Experi-

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LIAM:

LifeState

LifeConsole

LifeChronicle

BASED ON FEEDBACK FROM MY QS15 PRESENTATION, I BUILT A PRODUCT

AROUND VALENCEYou are welcomed to use it at no

charge. Sign-up at

http://selfstate.io.

BASED ON FEEDBACK FROM MY QS15 PRESENTATION, I BUILT A PRODUCT

AROUND VALENCEYou are welcomed to use it at no

charge. Sign-up at

http://selfstate.io.

It’s a B2B2C product, currently in

a medical trial. We hope to

capture, measure and

communicate the subjective

experience of people with

chronic health conditions.

THAT’S NOT ALL THOUGH...

Eventually, we’ll commercialize

many aspects of LIAM under the

company LifeState.

Stay tuned!

FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT

• Always interested in talking to QSers

• Really interested in investors, healthcare providers, potential founders / employees

Contact

• My name is Tahl Milburn

• You can reach me at biz@tahl.net