About
What notezeit is for
notezeit tells stories about human feelings and experience as a basis for decisions: the ones a person makes about their own life, and the ones a state makes for millions.
Things that are hard to measure get turned into numbers anyway, and those numbers then decide something. A wristband may attempt to read your stress and a survey could rank the happiest countries. So we follow that conversion from feeling to number and ask what it costs, because that trade-off is usually where the error gets in.
Six topics
Every story asks one of three questions, depending on who could act on the answer. Each question has two topics: the thing somebody built, and the human reality it was built for.
Signals
How can a feeling become a number to measure?
Sensors & MachinesThe devices, tests and models built to read a human state
Bodies & SignalsThe body and mind those instruments read
Personal
How can we individually optimize this number?
Habits & ChoicesThe things you do, and the number attached to each
Feelings & StatesThe feeling itself, and what it is made of
Society
How can we collectively optimize this number?
Rules & InstitutionsThe rules, targets, budgets and places designed for everyone
Cultures & PublicsHow whole populations believe, trust and behave
Where to find the stories
- X
- Substack
- YouTube
- TikTok