The Two Tech Wearables I'm Testing Right Now

I’m writing this newsletter as I’m walking right now. No, I’m not typing it on my phone. I’m legit just talking.

Thursday morning, a little bit before 6 o’clock, and I’m talking into a new device I just got to demo. One that’s trying to pave its way into the AI wearable category.

Which got me thinking... I talk tons about the software I use, and I haven’t gone much into the hardware. So today I’m going to talk about the wearable tech I’ve been experimenting with.

• I’ll tell you the exact process I go through using both of these tools
• as well as how I’m taking the conversation I’m having with myself right now, out on a walk, and turning it into the email you are now reading.

Also, happy Sunday. I hope you had a great Fourth of July!

Wearable #1: The Fitbit Air

The first thing I’ll say is for a long time, I have NOT been a wearable tech guy. Most wearable tech up until this point has been fitness-focused. Apple Watch, Fitbit, Whoop, tools like that. And at first, those didn’t really attract me. But recently my opinion has changed, and I’ll tell you why:

I want to know more data.

I’ve wanted to try the Whoop for a long time because it tracks so many different biometrics and data points of your health. I love knowing all of that stuff and dialing in my health and fitness to the best of my ability. And I don’t want a screen on my wrist that I’m distracted with. My wife is a big Apple Watch user, and I’ve seen how addictive that screen can be.

But the Whoop always felt a little too expensive. Especially when I didn’t know if I’d actually like it.

I wanted to try a wearable out before fully committing to the Whoop ecosystem. So this is my trial run, if you will. My experiment. The Fitbit Air is brand new from Google. $99 one time. Super light. I don’t feel like I’m wearing anything, and it basically tracks everything that I would want with the Whoop.

Here’s what I’m doing with the data.

I’m already logging my food elsewhere. I’m getting blood tests every 6 months that I keep. I track my workouts. What I was not measuring daily are metrics like my resting heart rate, calories burned from all of my activities, my sleep, and points like that.

That’s where the Fitbit Air comes in. Because knowing those numbers, along with what you’re eating, how you’re moving, and what your blood looks like, is really valuable stuff.

Now, I can’t enter all of that into the Fitbit app. In fact, their food logging system is terrible. So what I’m doing is creating my own health and wellness dashboard within Claude Code, dropping all of my data into that, and gaining a full and complete picture of my health that way.

Some might call this obsessive. Totally understandable. But the more you know and understand about yourself on this level, the better.

I’m already eating extremely well. I’m already working out 7 days a week. I just want to take all of this data and glue it together so I can fill any gaps or holes that I might have.

And even just wearing this alone and adding more movement to each day would be a huge net win for anyone. You can see it visibly. How many steps, how much activity, how many calories. I highly recommend it. Or just go all in on the Whoop, I think the Whoop is a great product.

Wearable #2: The Memoket (the thing I’m talking to right now)

Now for the AI note-taking device. It’s called Memoket, and it’s in the beta stage right now.

I came across this product doing some deep dive research for Chris on potential podcast guests, and I immediately fell in love with it.

Chris, for a long time, had the Limitless pendant. But they were acquired by Meta and stopped making the pendant. And then Chris’s pendant went through the washer, so that stopped working as well.

I reached out to Memoket to see if they’d be willing to talk about a potential sponsorship, because the brand is very much in alignment with what Chris talks about and what he’s used in the past. They’re a new company and they were thrilled. We’re still negotiating what that looks like, but they were so excited that they sent Chris and myself pendants to try out.

The Limitless pendant was always on. You went through your day talking and doing all the things you wanted to do, it registered everything, and you’d sync the transcript at the end of the day.

With the Memoket, I’m only recording one-off conversations. One at a time. Most of these right now are either:

• Phone calls where I don’t have a note-taker like Fathom or Granola on.
• Or it’s just me thinking about an idea and not wanting to whip out my phone and type a ton of stuff.
• Or this newsletter, which I’m writing right now.

What I’m looking forward to using this for is networking events. Being able to go back, recap what was talked about, remember the information that was told to me, remember the details about the person I was talking to, and then create content from those conversations. Haven’t had one of those since I started wearing it, but that’s what I’m looking forward to.

Now, I want to add that I have a strict policy: I’m not recording my wife or my kids. This is just for work purposes. The boundary needs to be set somewhere, and that is where I’m setting the boundary. It’s on during the workday, one conversation at a time, and it comes off at night.

How this walk becomes this email

So how am I writing this newsletter as I’m walking?

Well, I’m literally just talking to the Memoket right now. There’s pauses in here. There’s things that I’m going to take out and not use. But as I’m walking, I am simply just talking out loud. I have my earbuds in, so it looks like I’m talking on the phone, but I’m actually just talking to myself.

When I’m done, I hit stop, and the transcript generates.

To recap the whole process:

• I finish talking and export the transcript as a text file.
• I drop it into Claude Code, where I’ve created a skill trained on my newsletter writing voice. I’ve dropped dozens of my newsletters into it to really decipher how I write and what my voice is.
• That skill turns my rough brain dump into a polished Sunday Doughnuts draft. In my voice.
• I then go through it myself. Read it, add, subtract, and finalize.
• Then I send it to my executive assistant, who puts it into ConvertKit for me, structures the layout how I like it, and I go publish it.

AI is not writing this. AI is doing what I’ve conducted it to do, using the skills that I’ve given it and trained it on. Yes, AI for sure could write this. But I don’t want it to.

I genuinely enjoy the process of typing all this out, or going on a walk and talking all of it out.

That might seem like a lot of effort, but it’s not. I’m literally finishing up a walk right now. All I need to do from here is drag and drop, then read it once through to make sure it is how I want it to be. And then we’re done. Everything else is automatic or handled for me.

So there you have it. 2 very different but very valuable wearables that I’m experimenting with, and I’ll continue to share the data and the results as they come up.

I’m not sponsored by either one, but I do think they’re worthy of a try. For fitness tracking, the Fitbit Air is a great starting point, or jump all in and go Whoop. For the AI note-taker, I like Memoket because I know the brand, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Plaud and the integrations they have, and that might be the next note-taker I try.

If there’s other wearable tech that you’re using right now and it’s worth writing about, shoot me a reply and let me know. I’d love to hear about it. Alright, coming around to my house right now, and I’m going to hit stop.

Until next time... Stay in the fight,

Kevin