Chat Maigre

The Progress Protocol. Most protocols measure how much more you did. This one measures what it cost you. THE COUNTS Three times inside the morning hour you put two fingers on your wrist and count. Prima before you move. Media once you have settled. Ultima the moment you stop, and once more a minute later while you keep walking. Each one is three movements. Spiritus, settle the breath. Pulsus, take the count. Census, read what it says. The breath comes first for a reason rather than a mood: your rate climbs as you inhale and falls as you exhale, so counting across a ragged breath measures the breath as much as the heart. You never type a number and you never watch a clock. Press when you start counting and release on the twentieth beat, or let a tone start and stop you and enter what you counted. Either way the app does the arithmetic and hands it back in beats and per cent. Nothing…