Soma.
An operating system for the body. Every signal I generate, fused into one record I actually own — and taught to coach.
My body has been generating data for years, and almost none of it was mine to use. Six and a half years of Fitbit history sat inside a Google Takeout export, untouched — a whole record of a life, exported once and left for dead. Soma started there: with the refusal to let it stay dead.
To free the rest, I built an app for my Apple Watch. That got me into the Apple Developer Programme, and with it HealthKit — the key to the whole vault. From there I could fuse everything: the years of Fitbit history, everything the Watch records now, all of it collapsed into a single unified index of the body. One place, one record, mine.
Underneath it is deliberately boring. An append-only event log — every reading filed with its source, its confidence, and its provenance; nothing overwritten, corrections layered on top rather than erasing what came before. Deterministic projections recompute the state of any day from the raw events, the same way every time. The ledger is dumb on purpose; the intelligence sits above it, never inside it.
Then I cracked the WHOOP 4.0 — reverse-engineered the strap’s Bluetooth and pulled my own history back off it. It’s my data; only WHOOP’s proprietary recovery and strain algorithms sit behind the subscription, and those I left alone. It works in principle — I’ve had it connected and streaming — but it isn’t finished. I can’t yet take off the Watch and run the strap subscription-free; there are still issues to iron out. The hard part, getting in, is done.
The honest reason it exists: I want to be in the best shape of my life, and I know exactly where my limiting factors are. Building has taken most of my attention, and an injury took the rest — my health slipped below the standard I hold myself to. Soma is the correction. Not a return to where I was; a system pointed at where I haven’t been yet.
So the point was never a dashboard. It’s a whole panel of coaches reading one record: a nutritionist and meal planner, a mobility and flexibility coach, strength and conditioning, and in time a running coach — each an instrument on the same index. Photograph a meal and a food API reads the calories and macros back, matched against meals I’ve saved before, and files it against the day. It knows my step count and my walking pace, so it can say the quiet, exact thing — walk twelve minutes and thirty-seven seconds at your usual speed and you close the ring. A journal that feeds straight into Anamnesis sits alongside it. One index, many instruments, all of it wired to the systems I already run. The most ambitious thing I’ve built — and once the infrastructure is ironed out, it does everything.
