fitbitexp

Fitbit data, kept — the export and working-over of a life's step-count and sleep, drawn out of the wrist-band's keeping and held where the wearer can read the account. It is done in Python, an elder of the garden opened in 2017 when the wrist first began counting, and it works the numbers the way the old tally-keepers worked theirs: seasons on seasons, the paying visible. It exists because a count kept by a device belongs to the device until it is taken back — the steps of a life are the walker's own ledger, and ledgers belong in the family's hands.

In the old order of tribute, rent was paid in what the body actually did — so many kine, so many sacks, so many leagues walked escorting the chief's cattle along the drove roads, and the tally was kept against you, not for you, in the rí's book. The fit bit of that age was the chieftain's memory, and it never rounded down. This repository is the household's own tally-book turned right way up: the step-count and the sleep of a life, drawn out of the wrist-band's keeping in Python and held where the wearer can read the account. The Fianna paid their rent in leagues; this ledger lets the paying be seen, season on season, without anyone's word against it. It was opened in 2017, when the wrist first began its counting, and it has kept the count honest through the middle years since. The moss grows over the charts in green columns, like the boy who drew the winning tally.