by Eddie Pipkin
Reading author and reporter Ann Helen Peterson’s Culture Study newsletter on Substack last week, my ears perked up when she got on a rant about her wearable fitness tracker. She loves her rants, AHP, as do we all! This one was about the ways in which our ubiquitous body-worn tech is great at ‘gamifying’ fitness goals but not-so-great at encouraging its wearers to get the proper amount of daily rest, and it’s practically useless in advising us to slow down or abort our workout when a less strenuous pace is