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This is a guest post by Nick Winter, cofounder of Skritter and CodeCombat and author of The Motivation Hacker. He also works on Quantified Mind. We’ve mentioned Nick Winter and The Motivation Hacker before, in particular because... »
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Beeminding Outside the Box
Friday, March 15th, 2013
Let’s talk about some novel ways to use Beeminder! Whenever we hear about one of these I want to slap up a big smiling picture of the user in our “new favorite Beeminder” frame. First though, this entire post is a thinly veiled excuse to point out that OHMYGODGUYS Fog Creek likes us, they really really... »
Emergency TV Day
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
“I’m akratic about how little TV I watch.” I might be the single most bizarre akratic on earth but I’ve noticed that I waste tons of time on stupid little distractions, yet rarely watch movies or TV. Sitting down to do so seems like such an extravagant... »
The One Must-Do Task Each Day
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
This is a guest post by Alice Harris. It is crossposted on Mark Forster’s Get Everything Done blog which we’re »
Beeminder is S.M.A.R.T., Overcomes Bias
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
Katja Grace, long praised by economists and now collaborating with one since joining Robin Hanson’s OvercomingBias blog, just wrote a pretty amazing article about how much Beeminder improves her life. She made several important points, one of which is particularly reblogworthy, especially if we take the liberty of rephrasing it like... »
Trackers vs Lifehackers
Friday, December 30th, 2011
Beeminder makes pretty graphs of your progress. But if that’s your only reason to use Beeminder you might find it frustrating when your graph freezes because you deviated a bit from your »
Productivity Hack: The Sedimentary Filing System
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
A lot of people are at one extreme or the other when it comes to organizing papers on their desk. Either it’s an unmitigated disaster or it’s a model of anal retention that they seem to spend far too much energy on. For years I’ve been achieving a reasonable middle ground by sticking to... »