We live in a world overflowing with information — but how do you give personal meaning to personal data

In this 45-minute session, I’ll introduce personal science: a practical, empowering approach to answering questions that matter to you — about your health, energy, mood, productivity, recovery, or performance.

Instead of relying only on general advice, personal science relies on a structured approach to learning from your own experience through self-tracking, reflection, and systematic reasoning.

Instead of asking, “What works in general?” personal science asks a more powerful question:

What is true for me? Using the Quantified Self “Show & Tell” format, I will share a personal story structured around three questions:

• What did I do?
• How did I do it?
• What did I learn?

You’ll see how an individual question can evolve into a manageable tracking practice, how simple observations can lead to unexpected insights, and how personal data becomes personal knowledge.

Beyond my own story, I’ll share key lessons from the Quantified Self community — a global network of self-trackers who have spent years refining practical approaches to:

• Choosing what to track (and avoiding overwhelm)
• Designing lightweight experiments
• Making sense of messy real-life data
• Turning patterns into decisions
• Avoiding common self-tracking traps

This session is both inspirational and practical. You’ll leave with:

• A clear framework (Questioning → Observing → Reasoning → Discovering)
• Concrete ideas for your own self-tracking projects
• A deeper understanding of how personal data becomes usable knowledge

If you’re interested in self-tracking, reflective practice, or transforming lived experience into structured insight, this session will give you tools you can immediately apply within your own PKM system.