Whoop is an excellent biometrics bracelet I’ve been wearing for a few months since my friend Jaime Waydo joined as their CTO. After many years of being very in the Garmin 945 camp, I now do an Apple Ultra for all the smart stuff, and Whoop for all the great sleep, HRV, and recovery information that I use to be aware of my energy levels throughout the day, complemented by the Rise sleep and energy tracker app. This has been my ideal combo.
The founder and CEO of Whoop, Will Ahmed, interviewed me for their podcast, which we covered for a more mainstream audience my passion for open source and creating an open ecosystem for a web, how I got started as an entrepreneur, how Automattic hires, growth mindset and mental clarity, working with Joe Hudson as an executive coach, and day-to-day routine (or lack thereof, sometimes).
Whoop dee doo. Maybe if this had come years ago before CD were as common as floppy drives. Maybe if it was priced significantly lower than CD technology is now. Maybe if everyone still used Zip disks and this was completely backward compatible. Maybe then I would consider this worth…
It's another year, I have ordered all the things and tested all the cables, there's a little bit about tech and a little bit about life. Here's what made the cut, now I'm going to be factoring in weight of everything as well. The flat-lay this year was taken at…
I had the great fun the other week of hanging with Tim Ferriss on his podcast, an episode he titled Matt Mullenweg on Polyphasic Sleep, Tequila, and Building Billion-Dollar Companies. His previous guest was Arnold Schwarzenegger (!) and if you dig into the podcast archives there are some really amazing…
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Whoop has been my go to sleep/recovery tracking for over a year now. After years of tracking sleep/hrv/rhr in a bunch of different ways it has absolutely become my go to way to know whether to back off from PT.
I wish it was better at tracking strain for things like PT and rehab though.
Excellent podcast. “Customer-centricity” is a great North Star. As you may know, almost a quarter of all of WordPress customers have some for of disability. I’d welcome the opportunity to discuss an OSS project to eradicate barriers to digital content.
Whoop has been my go to sleep/recovery tracking for over a year now. After years of tracking sleep/hrv/rhr in a bunch of different ways it has absolutely become my go to way to know whether to back off from PT.
I wish it was better at tracking strain for things like PT and rehab though.
Excellent podcast. “Customer-centricity” is a great North Star. As you may know, almost a quarter of all of WordPress customers have some for of disability. I’d welcome the opportunity to discuss an OSS project to eradicate barriers to digital content.