We often rant and nag and worry that companies like facebook and google or govts are building huge datamines on top of our personal data.

Mass ranting takes place usually in specially organized conferences n all or on top trending twitter hashtags. Yet – somehow – i know of very few people who use this digital data being generated by oneself to kinda – discover more about themselves and build some “indicators” about their life, how they spend it and how they want to improve it…Sometimes, putting a number on some activity or behavior may be surprising and for sure interesting (at least for nerds)…It may also help you track yourself with tangible figures that are automatically generated and take little effort.

So below is compiled a list of geekish stuff you can do to discover small things that matter about yourself – -  sorry if i am infringing on the yoga-yistan discourse - those “stuff to do” are little thing that take little to no effort and run in the “background” in your life. All you need to do is dedicate a bored afternoon to look your own data up.

Here are some 10 google trends graphs that i found interesting… the topics below are random made out of keywords that came to my head or stuff that i thought were interesting. (google trends and google insights are services from google that let you see the trend around some search keywords, all you have to do is type in some comma separated keywords)