Archive for October, 2020

Beeminding the Right Thing: A Bookcase Study

Monday, October 26th, 2020
Beeminding the Right Thing: A Bookcase Study

I want to read more books. I already read a lot of books, but I want to read more! It sounds like that should be a simple thing to beemind. Do-more graph, set the rate to however many books I want to read per day/month/year, go! It has turned out... »

Road Ratchet Revamp Redresses “Ratcheting Breaks Breaks” Bug

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020
Road Ratchet Revamp Redresses “Ratcheting Breaks Breaks” Bug

Are you somehow stumbling upon this blog post without knowing anything about Beeminder? Hoo-boy are you in the wrong place. But here’s a frenzied attempt to catch you up in time: Beeminder graphs your progress toward goals by drawing a bright line, called the Yellow Brick Road, that you commit... »

The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment: A Retrospective

Saturday, October 3rd, 2020
The Stanford Marshmallow Experiment: A Retrospective

By popular demand — specifically, being the winner of our poll — we’re catching you up on the latest research on the marshmallow test!   The »