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I believe that this is my favorite among all other products that I have on this website. I don’t think anything will beat this, at least in the short term. I am talking about my Kindle Paperwhite. I was packing my luggage for a 10 hour flight when I said to myself, for the first time, I need an e-reader. The books I have in my luggage were just not leaving enough room for the rest of my stuff that I needed to pack. They were not even books that I was planning to read. I had already read them - I was taking them back to my parents’ mini - library. Our family and I have this thing about keeping all our books at my parents’ house, in their…

What gets measured, gets improved. These words, spoken by Peter Drucker, made me think of my Fitbit when I saw them on a poster in my office kitchen. I knew my Fitbit measured all sorts of things for me but did any of those things improve? When I thought about it, not really. Do I go to gym more often or take more steps every day? No. Fitbit did not make any significant changes or improvements in my life at all. I was already going to gym regularly and I had all sorts of active outdoor activities before having a Fitbit. The calories I burned everyday did not go up since I bought it. Neither did the average number of steps I take every week. Do I have one because…