The Man Who Quantifies Every Moment Of Every Day

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The Man Who Quantifies Every Moment Of Every Day

吉彩网网站 | By Dick Gordon

Published May 20, 2013 at 12:08 PM EDT

Chris Dancy keeps metrics on himself for every moment of every day.

He knows the number of steps he travels in a day, his average heart rate, and the amount of food he鈥檚 eaten. The 鈥淨uantified Man,鈥� says keeping statistics makes him a better employee and it鈥檚 in the future of everyone鈥檚 work.

Hear . Also in this show: Roman Mars of the 99% Invisible podcast looks back to - the kind you might still see in a drive through bank; and host Dick Gordon checks in with and have tried to make their own medicine to stop the progress of their disease.

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Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.

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