Ernesto Ramirez, PhD

Life in weeks

My life so far, one box per week. Each row starts on a birthday. When something worth remembering happens, I note it in its week. Inspired by Tim Urban's Your Life in Weeks and Buster Benson's version.

This is week 28 of my 46th year, and week 2,368 of 4,680 if I make it to 90.

My first ten years

0 · 1981I was born1 · 19822 · 19833 · 19844 · 19855 · 19866 · 19877 · 19888 · 19899 · 1990

My teens

10 · 199111 · 199212 · 199313 · 199414 · 199515 · 199616 · 199717 · 199818 · 199919 · 2000

My 20s

20 · 200121 · 200222 · 200323 · 200424 · 200525 · 200626 · 200727 · 2008

September 1, 2008

Joined the SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health and started as a research assistant at the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems. That year I wrote one of the first research abstracts on the validity of Fitbit wearables.

28 · 200929 · 2010

My 30s

30 · 201131 · 2012

June 1, 2012

Started as a community organizer at Quantified Self Labs.

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32 · 2013Started writing here33 · 201434 · 201535 · 2016

May 27, 2016

My dissertation looked at how people use physical activity trackers.

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Started at Fitabase36 · 201737 · 2018

June 1, 2018

Eight years designing and running large-scale decentralized digital health studies.

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38 · 201939 · 2020

My 40s

40 · 202141 · 202242 · 202343 · 202444 · 202545 · 2026Launched ernestoramirez.com46 · 202747 · 202848 · 202949 · 2030

My 50s

50 · 203151 · 203252 · 203353 · 203454 · 203555 · 203656 · 203757 · 203858 · 203959 · 2040

My 60s

60 · 204161 · 204262 · 204363 · 204464 · 204565 · 204666 · 204767 · 204868 · 204969 · 2050

My 70s

70 · 205171 · 205272 · 205373 · 205474 · 205575 · 205676 · 205777 · 205878 · 205979 · 2060

My 80s

80 · 206181 · 206282 · 206383 · 206484 · 206585 · 206686 · 206787 · 206888 · 206989 · 2070