We have a pair of blog posts from 2022 called “Backlog Freshening” and “Backlog Freshening For Humans” that we’re still very pleased with. To recap, say you have a backlog of something — tasks, emails, blog post drafts, bugs, you name it — that it’s not realistic to clear. (If you do need to clear it,...

The golden mean of Beeminder: If you never derail, dial up your bright red lines — if you’re derailing all the time, dial them down. Thanks to felixm and others in the forum for inspiring this post. The previous blog post in our series on how derailing is good-actually (see the sidebar for a review)...

We’re excited to officially announce our newest integration partner: Maayot! We’ve even got the Maayot folks here in their own words to tell you about it. Want an extra push to stay consistent with your Chinese reading? We (Maayot) are thrilled to announce our new integration with Beeminder, a powerful...

This is a sequel to “The Power of Rearticulating Insights in Your Own Words.” If that post convinced you, this post is a way to turn all that up to eleven. Also conceivably related is our latest autodata integration, Postminder, for beeminding forum posts. The extremely curious can check out the forum...

Tada! You can now beemind posting to the Beeminder forum, or any forum that uses the same forum software. Which is a lot of other fora. All the cool kids use it. It’s called Discourse. Not to be confused with Discord (more on this below), the instant messaging platform. Which, we suppose, is what the...

This is a slightly more polished version of something I posted in the Beeminder forum. The forum is also the place for ongoing discussion about this. OpenAI’s Deep Research tool was made available to premium users the other day and I tried it out with the following prompt: “What does the science say...

This is part 4 of our Melzaminder Series. Previously we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program, talked about scale weight as a metric, and talked about proxy metrics more generally. Here we talk about how the Metrics part of Mindful Munching with Metrics work. Alright, any non-nerds who...

That’s Fatebook with a T. Made by the impressive folks at Sage. What is Fatebook for? It’s for predicting things. Specifically, it’s for publicly or privately logging your estimates of the likelihood of certain future events. Which events? It’s totally up to you. You can predict the course of history,...

This is part 3 of our Melzaminder Series. Previously we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program followed by To Weigh Or Not To Weigh, in which we argue in favor of poor maligned scale weight as a useful getting-in-shape metric. Here, we generalize the idea of metrics that aren’t quite the...