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Beeminder ♥ Clozemaster
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
We’re excited to officially announce our newest integration partner: Clozemaster! We’ve even got the Clozemaster folks themselves here guest-blogging for us to tell you what Clozemaster... »
Beeminding With A Physical Button
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Zachary Jacobi has been beeminding since 2015, when he started using Beeminder (on the recommendation of... »
A Monastery is a Commitment Device
Friday, June 29th, 2018
Huge thanks to David Howell (see also his impressive Beeminder gallery) for valiantly coming to our... »
How To Use Beeminder Without Ever (Hardly Ever) Leaving Emacs
Friday, May 11th, 2018
We’re honored to have Marcin Borkowski guest blogging for us today. Dr. Borkowski is a professor and programmer in Poland, and a hardcore Beeminder user for four years now with 39 active goals. This post is highly nerdcentric but... »
Beeminding And All That Jazz
Wednesday, April 25th, 2018
Special guest post by Beeminder superfan and real-life friend, Kim Harrison, the Director of Education at PDX Jazz. We’re glowing with pride to read how one of our dear... »
Does Practice Make Perfect?
Saturday, April 7th, 2018
Ivana Kurecic is a PhD student in quantum information theory who beeminds dozens of things. One of her hobbies is translating incomprehensible scientific papers into stuff you should care about, at Happy Turtle Things, and today we’re lucky to get a taste of that (with... »
Beeminding All The Things
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
First, this guest post is an absolute inspiration and we implore you to read it. We’ve talked about Brent Yorgey before in press roundups but we’ll assume you don’t read those and repeat our gushing in this introduction. If you don’t know him, Professor Yorgey is well-known in the ... »
Negative Reinforcement ≠ Punishment
Friday, January 12th, 2018
Prof Michele Gregoire Gill is back! In her previous post she mentioned that Beeminder, in large part, motivates her via negative reinforcement. If you think that makes her sound... »
Schelling Fences on Slippery Slopes
Wednesday, December 27th, 2017
Special guest post by Scott Alexander of Slate Star Codex! This was originally published on LessWrong in 2012 but was in want of a better home. So it may be an exaggeration... »