Read more books! That's what I should do. I mean, reading on Hive is very insightful and really cool, but books by the big masters are just a different story. Not sure how I can get to that, though. I try to read when I go to bed, but often fall asleep while doing so, or are already too tired in the first place, as I spent too much time looking on digital letters.

The obsession with numbers is an interesting remark. We tend to put everything in numbers, in order to be able to qualify it somehow - the quantity let's us interpret the quality. That gives us the perception of control, maybe? I always laughed at the "pain on a scale from 1 to 10" as the same injury would be a 4 for me, and an 7 for my girlfriend, for example.

What I see in the article is the drive towards more efficiency. A false friend, in the case you make. It's the health improvement/step coefficient is better when you only walk 7,000 steps, so don't waste your time walking 10,000! Why do 1h daily exercise if the health effects are not more than 20min? Because it makes me feel better. Not on a scale, neither the weight scale nor the 1-10. It's just better.