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by vinchuco 3033 days ago
Instead of logging data, I'd suggest debugging for root causes. Regardless of approach, items:

Hydration. Eye-strain. Sleep. Exercise. Stress. Etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migraine#Cause

Meta: we seem obsessed about data and we have standard techniques for exploring relationships between them, but what is the equivalent source of techniques for first-principle root-cause search? (In the more practical, not the philosophical* sense)

* https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-metaphysics/