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Content note: I started writing a post announcing a (Pareto-inefficient) change to the pledge cap interface and realized I first needed a post about what we call the Pareto Dominance Principle. But before that we needed a post about Pareto... »
Startups Not Eating Each Other Like Cannibalistic Dogs
Huge thanks to Malcolm Ocean, Christina Willner, and »
How You Talk Yourself Out Of Reporting A Bug
It’s funny how universal it is for users (including programmers, including myself) to gravitate so strongly to “it’s probably just me / my crappy phone / my timezone / me not reading the webcopy / me not being deserving of love or working software / etc”. It might be an impulse to be kind and not... »
Quantified Self Talk: Tracking My Personal Reliability
On 2018-09-22 I gave a talk at the Quantified Self conference. This is that talk. You can also »
Beeminder, With The Power Of Reading!
Lawrence Evalyn has been beeminding for almost 7 years and we’re very proud to have him guest posting for us. If this whets your appetite, check out his professional blog where he’s written about »
Derailing Is Not Failing; or, Beeminder Revenue Proportional To User Awesomeness
“Potentially Paying Customers” We ended the last blog post with what you might think is an unfortunate epithet for new Beeminder users. Being buried at the end of a bunch of nitty-gritty about business reasons for the timing of collecting payment info,... »