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A complex dynamic system trying to understand life through Theory and Quantified Self

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      • The statistical difference between weekdays and weekends
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      • Causality is overrated 
      • A critical view on “the average”
      • The problems of measuring – the fractal paradox of measuring
    • Practical articles
      • You don’t have to do anything
      • Habits and how to change habits, a systems view
      • The butterfly effect within you
      • Towards preaching what you practice
      • Finding the free energy principle in life
      • What is crazy?
      • Why we don’t care about health at work
      • How patterns guide our behaviour
      • Health; the balance between variety and stability?
      • How your reference frame determines your happiness (and you can control it!)
      • Living in small-worlds – How our minds create the size of our world
      • How can I be purely myself? A “Fractal being” theory
      • Why life is such a drag – but not always
      • The complexity of life
      • Why it is impossible to separate things
    • Fundamental fractal/pattern articles
      • How you create your own scale free world
      • When systems merge
      • What is beauty?
      • Simplicity in complexity- Multi-layered systems
      • Transitions – the change of systems
      • Flowing through life
      • Viewing yourself as a complex dynamic system
      • The association between space & activity
      • Dancing in public & banana tasting apples; the associative mind
      • Why balance is key to our existence
      • Finding linearity in life, music, movies, and stories
      • Everything is
      • Being a linearity
      • The You in the environment
      • The fractals of life (video)
      • (NF) The chain of life
      • The fractalness of things
      • The chaos of colors – chaos shown through colors
      • The omnipresence of patterns
    • Numbers, waves and lines
      • Finding a linear pattern in the powers of integers
      • The color tree
      • How can I make a sphere to all directions starting from a central point?
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      • Playing with the associative mind
      • A try for Mondriaan
      • The random whale
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      • Humor out of theory
      • The next door – a story on the beauty of the infinite
      • Finding beauty and logic in coherence
      • The expanding cube of relativity
      • The alien
      • Tom the nice murderer
      • Living with no memory
      • Peter the planet
      • The rich get richer
      • Noise
      • Michasov, Michael, and Tom.
      • She is as beautiful..
      • A story on paths to convergence
      • The purple glitter ball
      • Zooming in and out
      • Everyone has a great time
      • Leaving the noise
      • The waves of life
      • Is it worth it?
      • The doorbell
      • Tom
      • The fight
      • Boom! and death – poems on aggregation
      • The good and the bad
      • I just want to understand everything
      • The guy who wore one shoe
      • a Rick an Morty looping fractal episode – a dialogue
      • When you don’t believe in time.
      • The synchronous day
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      • Happiness is not the answer
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      • How to get out of bed with a smile?
      • How do you dream?
    • Productivity
      • Why do I stop working?
      • To-do lists. Why do they fail?
      • The mobile phone addiction
      • How bad is stress?
    • Health
      • Resting Heart rate – The daily variation
      • Getting twice as strong in a month
      • Why do I eat?
      • Am I hungry when I eat?
      • How can I stop feeling cold?
      • Playing with cold
      • Discovering my internal rhythm – a pilot study
    • Product and app reviews
      • The Mindwave Mobile
      • The Pavlok: Do electric shocks work to stop a bad habit?
      • The Moves app- Where are you?
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      • An artistic expression of my life
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      • Are you a data conformist or data-protester?
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Welcome dear guest!

justintimm December 16, 2015 1

 

Welcome!

About me
Thank you for visiting my website. I am Justin Timmer, Human Movement Scientist, project manager and researcher. I have this website as a hobby to understand, improve and show myself (read more about why I write). In 2013 I started with Quantified Self practices, and over the years I performed many experiments, and studies on myself using wearable devices and apps. I more and more acknowledged the importance of patterns and this made me view myself as a complex dynamical system (read more about my journey here). Below I explain the structure of the menu’s.

Complex dynamical systems
From my self-tracking activities and experiments I learned a lot about patterns, complexity and fractals, and gained a lot of knowledge about life in general. I confirmed my assumptions  through reading books/articles and watching video’s on physics, dynamics, and chaos theory. Which this knowledge, I do the thing that enjoys me most; thinking about life and writing about idea’s. I use a complexity/system/fractal perspective to discover the unexplored area’s of life research. I am sharing my thoughts to inspire others, to hear criticism, and to make some of my thoughts come true. But most of all, I write about my thoughts, to make my thoughts more structured, sustainable and easy to share, what guides me towards new thoughts and new idea’s. I believe this is the most beneficial reason for me to blog on my website.

Quantified Self
Every day, I track about 40 variables using apps and wearables, I have been doing this since 2013. I don’t always experiment or change behavior when I track things, nonetheless I have learned many things just by tracking my life on a daily basis. Tracking myself raised my awareness of things, confronted me with facts, showed me unexpected changes, and made me deeper investigate important things. I learned a lot about happiness (and that it is not the most important thing), about stress, my phone use, sleep, my resting heart rate, and many more life-lessons. Moreover, I experimented with many things over the past years to increase my self-understanding and to improve myself. You can find a broad range of experiments like why do i eat?, and experiment that made me twice as strong in a month without working out, or an experiment where I spend a winter in a t-shirt without feeling cold. Lastly, I wrote a few reviews on several self-tracking devices I’ve used over the past years, like the Mindwave-Mobile, the Pavlok, Muse headband, Fitbit Charge 2, Withings Blood Pressure monitor, Basis B1, and Ubiome test-kit.

I’m sure you’ll find an article you like here 🙂

Have fun reading!

Justin Timmer

 

Latest interesting blog-articles:

Causality is overrated 

The problems of measuring – the fractal paradox of measuring

Are you a data conformist or data-protester?

What is real happiness? The happiness pursuit – part 2.

Resting Heart rate – The daily variation

 

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  • (NF) The chain of life
  • A critical view on “the average”
  • A discovery of my life
  • A Rick an Morty looping fractal episode – a dialogue
  • A story of my life
  • A story on paths to convergence
  • A try for Mondriaan
  • ABOUT ME
  • Am I hungry when I eat?
  • An artistic expression of my life
  • Analyses methods for self-knowledge 
  • Are you a data conformist or data-protester?
  • Art
  • Being a linearity
  • Boom! and death – poems on aggregation
  • Catworm
  • Causality is overrated 
  • Chaos in colors
  • Contact me
  • Contribution questions
  • Dancing in public & banana tasting apples; the associative mind
  • Data analyses en methods questions
  • Discovering my internal rhythm – a pilot study
  • Does time exist?
  • Everyone has a great time
  • Everything is
  • Finding a linear pattern in the powers of integers
  • Finding beauty and logic in coherence
  • Finding linearity in life, music, movies, and stories
  • Finding the free energy principle in life
  • Flowing through life
  • Fundamental chaos/fractal thoughts
  • Getting twice as strong in a month
  • Habits and how to change habits, a systems view
  • HAPPINESS
  • Happiness
  • Happiness on average – what do we lose?
  • Health
    • How bad is stress?
  • Health; the balance between variety and stability?
  • How can I be purely myself? A “fractal being” theory
  • How can I make a sphere to all directions starting from a central point?
  • How can I stop feeling cold?
  • How do you dream?
  • How patterns guide our behaviour
  • How to get out of bed with a smile?
  • How you create your own scale free world
  • How your reference frame determines your happiness (and you can control it!)
  • Humor out of theory
  • I just want to understand everything
  • Is it worth it?
  • Leaving the noise
  • Life – Questions
  • Life questions
  • Life-goals
  • Lifegoal(s)
  • Living in small-worlds – How our minds create the size of our world
  • Living with no memory
  • Loopguy
  • Measuring and statistics
  • Media
  • Michasov, Michael, and Tom.
  • My life in 40 variables (video)
  • Newsletter
  • Not finished
  • Open and direct data sharing
  • Other
  • Peter the planet
  • Playing with cold
  • Playing with the associative mind
  • Practical blogs using (fractal) theory
  • Product- and app reviews
  • Productivity
  • Productivity
  • Psyche
  • QS-experiments
  • QS-lifestory
  • QS-Questions
  • Reading my mind with an EEG-headset – A product review of the Mindwave Mobile by Neurosky
  • Reality
  • Resting Heart rate – The daily variation
  • She is as beautiful..
  • Short stories and poetry
  • Simplicity in complexity- Multi-layered systems
  • Sleep
  • Statistics
  • The alien
  • The association between space & activity
  • The beauty of Quantified Self
  • The butterfly effect within you
  • The color tree
  • The complexity of life
  • The doorbell
  • The expanding cube of relativity
  • The fight
  • The fractalness of things
  • The fractals of life (video)
  • The good and the bad
  • The guy who wore one shoe
  • The impact of constant variables
  • The mobile phone addiction
  • The Moves app- Where are you?
  • The next door – a story on the beauty of the infinite
  • The omnipresence of patterns
  • The Pavlok: Do electric shocks work to stop a bad habit?
  • The problems of measuring – the fractal paradox of measuring
  • The purple glitter ball
  • The random whale
  • The rich get richer
  • The statistical difference between weekdays and weekends
  • The synchronous day
  • The tree of dividing 1 by the powers of 2
  • The waves of life
  • The You in the environment
  • Thoughts & Idea’s
  • Three years of my life quantified and visualized
  • To-do lists. Why do they fail?
  • Tom
  • Tom the nice murderer
  • Towards preaching what you practice
  • Transitions – the change of systems
  • Viewing yourself as a complex dynamic system
  • What is beauty?
  • What is crazy?
  • What is real happiness? The happiness pursuit – part 2.
  • When systems merge
  • Who am I?
  • Why balance is key to our existence
  • Why do I eat?
  • Why do I stop working?
  • Why do I write?
  • Why it is impossible to separate things
  • Why life is such a drag – but not always
  • Why we don’t care about health at work
  • You don’t have to do anything
  • Zooming in and out

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