
Harry Bertoia’s “My-self Rating Chart” school assignment. Harry Bertoia papers, 1917-1979.

Harry Bertoia’s “My-self Rating Chart” school assignment. Harry Bertoia papers, 1917-1979.

It is such a simple thing, but since I started, about three years ago, using Flickr and my top-secret notebooks to keep track of what I read, it has brought me a ridiculous amount of satisfaction.

Helen DeWitt, Chart 2008
The things that drive us crazy don’t do so once a month, or once a week, or even once a day: we have to fight them minute by minute, hour by hour.
In a fascinating piece over at Incongruous Quarterly, DeWitt recalls charting her year. The red blocks signify days she didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, or went to the gym. Very Lodwickian.
Forgot to share this a while back. (via)
“What happens when technology can analyze every quotidian thing that happened to you today.”