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Archive for 2021
Book Review: How To Change
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
Earlier this year we completed a lovely Beeminder book club to read behavioral scientist Katy Milkman’s new book, »
Calendialing
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
This is adapted from a forum post which was adapted from a daily beemail which was adapted from a fiftieth of Brent Yorgey’s brilliant, »
Nicky’s Secret To Beeminding Studying: It’s About Time
Friday, November 12th, 2021
We are overdue for a blog post about using Beeminder for school and studying. In the very early days of Beeminder, we had a brilliant guest post from Gandalf Saxe when he was a wee undergrad. Now he’s an engineer at Apple, working on Siri. We’re going to go ahead... »
Loss Aversion Aversion
Saturday, October 30th, 2021
This is part 2 of our two-part series on loss aversion. Previously we explained loss aversion and how it’s distinct from the endowment effect. Here we (as Beeminder) disavow loss aversion as a tool for behavior change. This isn’t like “ »
Loss Aversion vs The Endowment Effect
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
This is part 1 of a two-part series. First we explain loss aversion and how it’s distinct from the endowment effect. (Spoiler: loss aversion is a generalization of the endowment effect.) Asking Google how those things are different currently yields a fog of opaque logorrhea, so we hope this is... »
Complice’s Gloves Come Off: Announcing Micro Commitment Contracts in Complice
Tuesday, September 28th, 2021
Well, Complice lulled us into complacency with all their talk of
how complementary Beeminder and Complice are and now here we are.
Today they’re launching micro commitment contracts; presumably tomorrow will be macro commitment contracts.
And from there, all out war.
Ok, no,
Nicky’s Ultimate Support Secret: Dogfood
Tuesday, September 7th, 2021
Sorry to spoil the suspense with the title there. (Unless you don’t know the term “dogfood” but we’ve blogged... »
Make A Plan To Forget
Thursday, August 26th, 2021
This is going to sound painfully obvious at first — “Don’t assume you’ll remember things! Create reminders!” — but bear with me. There are two useful, nonobvious things here: Sometimes you think of something you need to remember while, say, driving, or talking to someone. You can’t always email yourself or write something down but you can still do something like... »
Beeminder ♥ CodeCombat
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Fun fact that is not remotely a coincidence: The founder and CEO of CodeCombat is a friend and Beeminder superfan and previous guest blogger here on the Beeminder blog! In fact, ... »