Don’t Live Your Life by the Numbers
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2 min readNov 12, 2020
Do you know how many posts you’ve put on Instagram? Your number of Medium followers? The number of steps you’ve taken today? Yesterday? Last Monday? Our lives are increasingly quantifiable. And the numbers can be motivating — but they can obscure the reasons why we work out, read Medium, take a walk.
In “Stop Keeping Score,” published on Forge, Paul Ollinger writes about how he’s used his Peloton…