Forget the greater good: Citizen science as a lifestyle, not a project

Citizen science usually involves amateurs collecting data for scientists, but there's another kind of citizen science out there, and I think it's more important: lifestyle science. Lifestyle science is any practice that uses objectivity, observation, and systematic thinking to understand and engage the world. You can do it every day of your life, and you do it because you enjoy it, not because someone else wants you to do it. From birding to hardware hacking to astrophotography, lifestyle science cultivates scientific values like wonder, skepticism, and experimentation not within the limits of a project, but for a lifetime.