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Ice Cream Truck Loopholes
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Sometimes Beeminder goals have loopholes, like you could dehydrate yourself to get your datapoint below the bright line on your weight-loss graph (please don’t!). There are plenty of things like that and I probably shouldn’t think too hard about more examples. Sometimes loopholes like that can ruin a goal. But other times, ironically, such loopholes... »
Accountability Partners and Soft Accountability
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
Malcolm Ocean has been on both sides of the accountability relationship. Among the many roles he’s played is professional accountability provider: initially as Beeminder’s beekeeper, and now also independently with people who use his... »
Beeminder’s New Year’s Resolution Survivor
Thursday, December 27th, 2018
Trusting Your Divided Self
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
This is a post by Philip Hellyer, which he wrote before Chelsea Miller’s recent Weasel Heart-To-Heart but which... »
Cranial Silicosis and Paths of Least Resistance
Thursday, July 16th, 2015
For those just tuning in, let’s review the Three Great Beeminder Epiphanies. The Yellow Brick Road — bringing long-term consequences near (and using the graphs as the basis for... »
Smoking Sticks and Carrots
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
This is crossposted on Messy Matters. Let’s talk about science! Beehavioral science. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week has been all over the news. It’s much better than... »
What To Mind: Picking a Metric
Saturday, September 13th, 2014
We use the word “goal” a lot but, ironically, we agree with Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) who argues that goals are for losers. He points out that the most... »
New Feature: Supporters
Saturday, May 3rd, 2014
Technically we deployed this feature over two months ago, but not very well so we didn’t have much fanfare. It was one of our »
Get Things Done (Or Else!) With Beeminder and GTBee
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
At its core, Beeminder is a tool for getting yourself to do things using money as an incentive. Most goals on Beeminder focus on making steady progress over time. But some goals, and some people, work better with a different model. Let’s say you have to call someone by the end of the day today, and... »