Working definition
The secret of personal data is that your definitions of feeling, role, and self-image are the data — loose metaphors cannot hold Manual Of Me precision.
How it works
Borrowed words — adult, charge, content, battle — feel clear until you try to act on them. Personal Definitions turns each state into definition plus body indicators. The secret of personal data is the operational punch line: you cannot reverse-engineer Be Your Real Boss or Morning Voice from three drifting metaphors.
Capture generously (data selfie), interpret on schedule (Weekly Review): ten lines on the adult you want beat one hour of fog. Branka’s walk question — how can I have more love for my life and for myself? — is a quality-of-data question, not a mood fix.
Example
You know adult matters this week — frame, play, security — yet you open the journal and write three drifting metaphors you have used for years. You close the notebook feeling thoughtful; nothing is precise enough to grep next month or record in a Morning Voice. The censor kept vocabulary fuzzy so no definition can pin you to a move. That is B2 miss-steer — inherited words still author the picture; your real boss never got the dictionary entry.
Signature
The image is the same walk, two datasets — three drifting metaphors feel thoughtful but stay ungrepable; ten precise lines are the data Manual and Morning Voice need — Yann on 2026-07-06.
Yann on 2026-07-06 after Branka cannot yet name the adult she wants: the surgeon/generalist trap — fuzzy target, fuzzy surgery — lands personal data as lever before Morning Voice gets recorded.
Spatial split — fuzzy data (three metaphors) versus precise data (ten grepable lines · frame · play · security). Your move: Your move this week.
Your move this week
- Ten lines — the adult I want to be is… (frame, play, security, your word).
- Three lines — the adult I refuse to replay is…
- One Voicenotes capture after the walk — read back: could future-you grep this entry?