Tech companies wants to dictate your own life's narrative.

Big Tech has been pushing the idea that an unobserved private life is not worth living. AI wearables will be a new attempt at that.

In the 2010s, this was defined by user-generated posts of their everyday thoughts and sights to Twitter or IG stories. The "quantified self" apps encouraged tracking your own life's statistics in a never-ending quest to improve those numbers as a form of self-improvement. What started as tracking strength training of course turned into detrimental dietary hyperoptimization, choosing how you spend your free time like you're controlled by an aggressive micromanager, has ultimately slid into a literal dick measuring contest amongst high-profile tech men.

In these next years, we will see a proliferation of tech wearables insist that your every moment will need to be recorded so that AI could then assist you in improving your behavior at work, in your free time, and in social situations.

We have to realize that external analysis of your life is not a helpful extra voice, that it isn't more objective, but that it is a distortion of what it even means to be human. "Life is More Than An Engineering Problem"

When an attention economy is so thoroughly scattering your daily experience that you need something outside of yourself to tell you where you've been.

Summarizing your life is in fact building and choosing your life. What you internalize from your life's experience is in fact what makes you you. And when we want to make changes to our life, we instead need to fight for a lifestyle and a culture that lets us do our own self-reflection.