The problem of self-optimization and collecting the data about us

In the meantime, I have read so much about self-optimization that I rarely discover something really new. But now that’s what happened: I’ve stumbled across a new point of criticism of self-optimization and, what’s more, one that can’t just be stripped away or argued off, that you have to take seriously. It’s about the negative effect that measuring and recording behavior, which is part of self-optimization (at least according to my definition), can have on motivation. The constant measurement and collection of values can rob the joy of…