five years ago I stood on a stage not
that dissimilar to this talking about
data is the new oil and that every
software company was going to become a
data company but I’ll let you in on a
little secret I was a fraud I had no
experience of this myself and I didn’t
at the same time I was just satisfied
with my current state of health I was
slightly overweight I wasn’t very active
and I developed a condition of vertigo
that meant I felt like I was kind of
drunk most of the time and this has gone
on for weeks you know for months I knew
something had to change roll back the
clock to 2009 after the sudden death of
my father I vowed that I wasn’t going to
follow in his footsteps I wasn’t going
to let their choices and ill health lead
me to an early grave I started running I
started eating better but the change
didn’t stick and things went back to the
way that they were before how many
people have made a new year’s resolution
vowed to change something in their lives
only to have life get in the way and it
go back to how it was before you made
that their goal will change itself is a
really simple concept something stops
change occurs and then something begins
the real challenge is how do you make
change stick being the engineer that I
am I started researching the formula for
change it talks about dissatisfaction
with the current state times by the
vision that you want to achieve times by
the first steps required to get you
there as long as these three things are
greater than the resistance that you put
on yourself change will occur so I
thought about my dissatisfaction
my ill health my condition of vertigo
and I set myself an impossible goal that
I was going to walk or run 4000
kilometers in 2014 I took my first steps
I got myself a treadmill I started
running one kilometer then two then five
and then I started raining outside now I
could tell you that I went on to achieve
my goal but if I did that that would be
the end of the story and I wouldn’t
unearth the grand idea that I discovered
along the way what I discovered about
myself is that I like to justify my
obsessions I like to define them as flow
this gives me permission to shut out the
outside world to exist in the moment and
to focus on one thing but I have to ask
myself at what cost do I do this am i
attached to the outcome or am I
committed if things change along the way
can I adjust can i flex can I change the
goal posts so I was tested in this back
in March 2014 I first came up against my
piece of resistance in my pursuit for my
goal and I developed a condition that
many people here in this room may be
able to relate to I became allergic to
exercise when I started to run I broke
out in a sweat normal right
but then when I sweat it my body broke
out in full body hives and this went on
for weeks and for months by not
listening to my body and continuing to
exercise while I had a virus I developed
an autoimmune disease chronic urticaria
with no known cause and no known cure
and I was able to cure myself through
insight from data and I did this really
by following three steps the first step
track everything I had a wearable device
on my wrist that was tracking my
heartrate my sleeping
patterns my movement I also had
Bluetooth scales and I had apps that
would track my food intake
being present and the present getting
outside of my mind I went and saw dr.
spinner at the resilience Institute in
Auckland and he taught me about
mindfulness breathing techniques and how
to sleep better and then the third thing
and this is probably the most important
thing was learn how to eat I treated
this like a science experiment I reset
my diet to raw vegan food and then I
reintroduce things one by one and
observe the effect that they had on my
body and through this process I found
out that I was really sensitive towards
caffeine and it gave me a high elevated
heart rate over a prolonged period of
time that I had no idea about now what I
did I know isn’t something that
everybody would be able to follow there
was a lot of manual process there was a
lot of spending time and spreadsheets
and at times I felt like I was drowning
in a sea of data struggling to find the
insight that I needed in fact when I
think about the future I think there’s
an infinite amount of technology of
devices and data and it’s really taking
over
and what’s finite is our time in our
attention and I thank you for giving me
the gift of your attention today so what
I did next is I took all the learnings I
gathered over those few years and I
built a software solution and this
solution automated the process of
collecting the data so it just happened
without me needing to do anything it
then collected the data and then it
provided me inside at the time in place
where I needed it I could ask questions
of my data and I could get back answers
in a language that I understood how many
beers did I drink during the week in the
last three months on Monday to Thursday
in the last three months you drank a
total of 47 beers
11 in September 28 in October and 8 in
November this is a little less than one
beer per day I noticed that you drank 12
beers on Thursday October the 19th which
is outside of your normal behavior you
also gained 2 kilograms in October which
I tell myself a false truth and that is
that I don’t drink alcohol during the
week but by asking the question at the
data I was able to get an honest reply
and in my defense that Thursday in
October I was on holiday with my family
and we were doing a tasting tour of some
craft breweries but it’s one thing
looking back it’s another thing all
together to be prompted at the right
place in the right time to make
different choices when did you last
predict that I was stressed I last
warned you that you were getting
stressed in the afternoon of Sunday
October 22nd 2017
now that Sunday afternoon was just after
I’d flown back from Australia and the
Bott reached out to me proactively and
let me know that I was getting stressed
in that moment I became aware of a
pattern I became aware that I often gets
stressed and sick when I go on holiday
when I come back from holiday and when I
come back from traveling overseas and by
becoming aware of the pattern I was able
to react and make a different approach
in different choices when was our last
sick the last time that you told me you
were sick was earlier this year on
Friday the 16th of June on that day I
had predicted that you were sick with
92% confidence I let you know that I
thought you were getting sick two days
earlier in the morning of Wednesday the
14th of June so when the bot reached out
to me on that Wednesday morning and let
me know that I was getting sick I was
able to make a different choice I was
able to listen to my body and stop
exercising so I wouldn’t repeat the
mistakes that I’ve made in the past the
solution that I’ve built I’ve made
available for free for everybody all
over the world and I’ve had people
adopting the solution and using it in
providing feedback and giving me
feedback and on how it works in their
own lives now there’s a lot of talk
about the concept of artificial
intelligence and there’s also a lot of
fear out
that machines are going to automate
processes and take away jobs that
currently we have people doing today I
instead like to think about a future of
symbiotic intelligence where machines
augment human experience and ultimately
make us better humans the software that
I’ve built is invisible it’s magical
it speaks a language that I do it gives
me a nudge at the right place in the
right time so that I can change my
behaviors so that I can make different
choices and ultimately helps me make
change stick cure at a toe thank you very much
that dissimilar to this talking about
data is the new oil and that every
software company was going to become a
data company but I’ll let you in on a
little secret I was a fraud I had no
experience of this myself and I didn’t
at the same time I was just satisfied
with my current state of health I was
slightly overweight I wasn’t very active
and I developed a condition of vertigo
that meant I felt like I was kind of
drunk most of the time and this has gone
on for weeks you know for months I knew
something had to change roll back the
clock to 2009 after the sudden death of
my father I vowed that I wasn’t going to
follow in his footsteps I wasn’t going
to let their choices and ill health lead
me to an early grave I started running I
started eating better but the change
didn’t stick and things went back to the
way that they were before how many
people have made a new year’s resolution
vowed to change something in their lives
only to have life get in the way and it
go back to how it was before you made
that their goal will change itself is a
really simple concept something stops
change occurs and then something begins
the real challenge is how do you make
change stick being the engineer that I
am I started researching the formula for
change it talks about dissatisfaction
with the current state times by the
vision that you want to achieve times by
the first steps required to get you
there as long as these three things are
greater than the resistance that you put
on yourself change will occur so I
thought about my dissatisfaction
my ill health my condition of vertigo
and I set myself an impossible goal that
I was going to walk or run 4000
kilometers in 2014 I took my first steps
I got myself a treadmill I started
running one kilometer then two then five
and then I started raining outside now I
could tell you that I went on to achieve
my goal but if I did that that would be
the end of the story and I wouldn’t
unearth the grand idea that I discovered
along the way what I discovered about
myself is that I like to justify my
obsessions I like to define them as flow
this gives me permission to shut out the
outside world to exist in the moment and
to focus on one thing but I have to ask
myself at what cost do I do this am i
attached to the outcome or am I
committed if things change along the way
can I adjust can i flex can I change the
goal posts so I was tested in this back
in March 2014 I first came up against my
piece of resistance in my pursuit for my
goal and I developed a condition that
many people here in this room may be
able to relate to I became allergic to
exercise when I started to run I broke
out in a sweat normal right
but then when I sweat it my body broke
out in full body hives and this went on
for weeks and for months by not
listening to my body and continuing to
exercise while I had a virus I developed
an autoimmune disease chronic urticaria
with no known cause and no known cure
and I was able to cure myself through
insight from data and I did this really
by following three steps the first step
track everything I had a wearable device
on my wrist that was tracking my
heartrate my sleeping
patterns my movement I also had
Bluetooth scales and I had apps that
would track my food intake
being present and the present getting
outside of my mind I went and saw dr.
spinner at the resilience Institute in
Auckland and he taught me about
mindfulness breathing techniques and how
to sleep better and then the third thing
and this is probably the most important
thing was learn how to eat I treated
this like a science experiment I reset
my diet to raw vegan food and then I
reintroduce things one by one and
observe the effect that they had on my
body and through this process I found
out that I was really sensitive towards
caffeine and it gave me a high elevated
heart rate over a prolonged period of
time that I had no idea about now what I
did I know isn’t something that
everybody would be able to follow there
was a lot of manual process there was a
lot of spending time and spreadsheets
and at times I felt like I was drowning
in a sea of data struggling to find the
insight that I needed in fact when I
think about the future I think there’s
an infinite amount of technology of
devices and data and it’s really taking
over
and what’s finite is our time in our
attention and I thank you for giving me
the gift of your attention today so what
I did next is I took all the learnings I
gathered over those few years and I
built a software solution and this
solution automated the process of
collecting the data so it just happened
without me needing to do anything it
then collected the data and then it
provided me inside at the time in place
where I needed it I could ask questions
of my data and I could get back answers
in a language that I understood how many
beers did I drink during the week in the
last three months on Monday to Thursday
in the last three months you drank a
total of 47 beers
11 in September 28 in October and 8 in
November this is a little less than one
beer per day I noticed that you drank 12
beers on Thursday October the 19th which
is outside of your normal behavior you
also gained 2 kilograms in October which
I tell myself a false truth and that is
that I don’t drink alcohol during the
week but by asking the question at the
data I was able to get an honest reply
and in my defense that Thursday in
October I was on holiday with my family
and we were doing a tasting tour of some
craft breweries but it’s one thing
looking back it’s another thing all
together to be prompted at the right
place in the right time to make
different choices when did you last
predict that I was stressed I last
warned you that you were getting
stressed in the afternoon of Sunday
October 22nd 2017
now that Sunday afternoon was just after
I’d flown back from Australia and the
Bott reached out to me proactively and
let me know that I was getting stressed
in that moment I became aware of a
pattern I became aware that I often gets
stressed and sick when I go on holiday
when I come back from holiday and when I
come back from traveling overseas and by
becoming aware of the pattern I was able
to react and make a different approach
in different choices when was our last
sick the last time that you told me you
were sick was earlier this year on
Friday the 16th of June on that day I
had predicted that you were sick with
92% confidence I let you know that I
thought you were getting sick two days
earlier in the morning of Wednesday the
14th of June so when the bot reached out
to me on that Wednesday morning and let
me know that I was getting sick I was
able to make a different choice I was
able to listen to my body and stop
exercising so I wouldn’t repeat the
mistakes that I’ve made in the past the
solution that I’ve built I’ve made
available for free for everybody all
over the world and I’ve had people
adopting the solution and using it in
providing feedback and giving me
feedback and on how it works in their
own lives now there’s a lot of talk
about the concept of artificial
intelligence and there’s also a lot of
fear out
that machines are going to automate
processes and take away jobs that
currently we have people doing today I
instead like to think about a future of
symbiotic intelligence where machines
augment human experience and ultimately
make us better humans the software that
I’ve built is invisible it’s magical
it speaks a language that I do it gives
me a nudge at the right place in the
right time so that I can change my
behaviors so that I can make different
choices and ultimately helps me make
change stick cure at a toe thank you very much
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