Using Big Data To Get A Smaller, Fitter You

Big Data, Small Waist
CAMBRIDGE, MA - JULY 23: Director of Real Estate and Planning at Biogen Idec Ed Dondero demonstrates a treadmill station where employees can walk while they work on their laptops at the new Biogen Idec headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., July 23, 2013. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
CAMBRIDGE, MA - JULY 23: Director of Real Estate and Planning at Biogen Idec Ed Dondero demonstrates a treadmill station where employees can walk while they work on their laptops at the new Biogen Idec headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., July 23, 2013. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

I'm on a treadmill and I can't seem to get off of it.

That's a metaphor, actually. I am, as it happens, on a literal treadmill--a treadmill desk, part of the technological toolkit I've assembled for a four-month-long experiment on myself I'm conducting publicly, here on ReadWrite.

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