My Actifit Report Card: May 6 2019 - plus some actifit commentary and hopefully enough meta content to satisfy the haranguers

I worked from home and did two dogwalks forgetting to bring my phone.

Then did a comedy show and had to shove my phone in a bag.

Really shows you what the difference is just from dogwalks and walking around an office..

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[ start meta-post commenting on post, app, and life itself]

To fill out this post, so as to satisfy the various actifit.gnats that buzz around and bug you about the content of your posts, (post, btw, that are all created within and from the actifit app itself. )

Here's somethings I've noticed. This is directed at you, @actifit

1. Your app is still buggy. It locks up some days and doesn't update steps all day... you gotta work on that

2. It has on 3 occasions not reset to zero at midnight

3. ..and this is directed to the @actifit support team, a very dedicated bunch of people who scour blockchain for sub par posts and swarm you about them..

3 a) more options for the pic that goes with the report. If you are feeling concerned enough to send out to your legions to harang us about our posts, at least buff up your app to give us more options so it's not one long steemblog series of posts with that same, and I hate to say it but, rather boring logo..

3 b) and this is directed at moderators. Three times I have had someone come and comment on the one post they visited (in all cases different posts, but all the more basic or 'today I am on the run and posting this quickly'), and not notice that I am doing an ongoing series.. Something sort of like amazed at how many steps I get in a typical workday. It is a snapshot of a life, and it's intended to be boring. Like a Seinfeld episode (a show about nothing) or something like "the hapless actifitter"

3 c) so as per the above, it's painfully clear they are not actually looking at the overall content of the poster, but just one post and basing their comments on that. I ask you this: how many people like their lives in 'one post'?

3 d) this post, while it was under the 5K limit (and note, I have deliberately not posted other days under 5K), I chose to post because I was pointing something out about my activity level, and the comparison to previous posts (i.e. where if I worked at the office, and went in in the evenings to do a comedy show, I was hitting over 10K!! Which still amazes me!)

3 e) If in fact you do not want people to post from your app if it under 5K, then use a condition in the code to keep us from posting. I know you will review and vote accordingly, so I am not worried about that part of it..

3 f) as you can see from 3 d) I am still amazed the difference in a day, from 3K (but as I say, I didn't carry my phone around and missed two dogwalks of about 1K each) to in some cases 19K (and on one of those, the moderator said - 'Please post more details of the things you did to accomplish such a thing')

3 g) It's called walking, it's not glamorous like 77 pushups but it is very effective at getting you from point A to point B... there's no amount of lipstick that will make that kind of a pig look pretty. It's left right left step step step. boring.

3 h) Boring is the stuff of life. Walking is the start of good health. Be about encouraging health and not fancy-shmancy reporting.

back to) I know steemit veterans seem to, at least from my limited time here, have a view that if a post is not a comprehensive analysis of the minute by minute steps by which someone came to the will and conscious decision to post, including a bunch of screen captures or pics of their meta-steps to arrive at the post, and any thoughts and feelings associated with the development of said decisions, it is not considered a good enough post.

and so) Posting and blogs are about subjective life, and share experiences, and sometimes, just a chance to throw down some thoughts. If you want to grow the ecosystem you need to understand that the next generations are posting micro-snapshots of their life, and that's just how it is.

n) back to acitifit - More wellness options... it's pretty basically a step count app. You want us to get all gung ho and high five each other about your app... then expand it to share info with things like the water apps, and the pushup apps out there (here's one I use)

n+1) You guys are still doing good work, and overall I like the app.. but it's time to expand beyond just the basics..

infinity) this one is about life.. and relates to 3 g). Walking, coffee, naps... this is the stuff of life. And life is boring. I suppose all things teach you something, @actifit, and your haranging has reminded me of this point about boredom. I thank you for that..

from Chogyam's 'the Myth of Freedom' (a snipped on cosmic boredom captured here):

Boredom is important because boredom is anti-credential.

Credentials are entertaining, always bringing you something new, something lively, something fantastic, all kinds of solutions. When you take away the idea of credentials, then there is boredom…

…similarly, boredom is important in meditation practice; it increases the psychological sophistication of the practitioners. They begin to appreciate boredom and they develop their sophistication until the boredom begins to become cool boredom, like a mountain river. It flows and flows and flows, methodically and repetitiously, but it is very cooling, very refreshing. Mountains never get tired of being mountains and waterfalls never get tired of being waterfalls… It is a good feeling to be bored

and

[Zazen] is trying to bring out boredom, which is a necessary aspect of the narrow path of discipline, but instead the practice turns out to be an archeological, sociological survey of interesting things to do, something you could tell your friends about: “Last year I spent the whole fal sitting in a Zen monastery for six months. I watched autumn turn into winter and I did my zazen practice and everything was so precise and beautiful. I learned how to sit and I even learned how to walk and eat. It was a wonderful experience and I did not get bored at all.” You tell your friends, “Go, it’s great fun,” and you collect another credential. The attempt to destroy credentials creates another credential.
The first point in destroying ego’s game is the strict discipline of sitting meditation practice. No intellectual speculation, no philosophizing. Just sit and do it. That is the first strategy in developing buddha-dharma without credentials.

Actifit is about health, and health can be work, and boring, and that's just the way it is

and credit where credit is due.. source is the Simpsons but real source is an actual human

Dan Castellaneta

Walking