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Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Osvaloshan. Happy New Year. It's a new year. It's a new you, it's a new me, maybe.

It's definitely an opportunity to set some new intentions. But as we all know, building habits can be rather tricky.

We don't, as a society, talk about how to set goals that make sense.

So, you know, it's very common to be like, this year, I'm going to eat super healthy,

and I'm going to lose 50 pounds, and this is my year,

and you don't really set achievable goals within that.

This is Victoria Song, who's a senior tech reviewer for The Verge.

Your New Year's resolution should come in different sizes.

So there should be something that's like, my big goal is to lose 50 pounds.

But this year, I'll be happy if I just lose 10.

Because that's achievable.

And then once you hit that achievable thing, you can adjust and

titrate. But you really got to set the bar so low so that you can build momentum. You really want to

make it so easy, it feels like you're cheating. Anything we can do to make meeting goals easier

is of interest to me. And obviously, as the host of a tech podcast,

I have a natural curiosity about how tech can help us not just reset intentions, but actually

stick to new commitments at this time of year. And that's why I wanted to talk to Victoria,

because she is a professional wearer of wearables,

a full-time tester of products that promise

to optimize everything about us.

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