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Nicole Loher is better known as an Instagram/Tumblr influencer who graduated high school early to work in fashion while attending college in New York (she pretty actively blogged during this time), so it's plausible she started some sort of routine at 16.

Here's the paper link: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/publications/pdfs/Nayar_ICC...

I think they are aberrations in the mirror's glass. People used to use Schlieren optics-esque techniques to test glass for defects.

I think activity trackers are classified slightly different from the GPS watch market you're perceiving Garmin to dominate. DCRainmaker says Garmin's first activity monitor device was first released in early 2014.

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/01/vivofit-activity-monitors...

I think the problem was that his deal with the New Yorker meant he would create original work for them. I'm sure it's okay when they are your own books that you sell to publishers, and the publishers are aware of the overlap in content, but in this case he was supposed to be writing new, original pieces for the New Yorker.

I shifted my work hours ahead by two hours and cut down my commute by a half hour each way, and those first two hours are my most productive (no meetings, no urgent emails, no loud conversations next door). I highly recommend it.