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Huge thanks to Geoff Hubbard (aka insti) for a delightful meetup in Copenhagen, including board games and nerding out about Beeminder and other topics. We just got home and Beeminder wants us to publish a blog post.... »
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Is Beeminder Self-Blackmail?
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
Paying Is Not Punishment
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
UPDATE: See follow-up post announcing No-Excuses Mode. An under-appreciated fact about Beeminder is that it doesn’t force you to do anything. It just puts prices on things and you continue to do whatever you feel like doing, factoring in those prices. Just like you might buy... »
The Bright Red Staircase
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
This is still pie-in-the-sky philosophical navel-gazing but it makes me very happy. Not just because I love pie-in-the-sky philosophical navel-gazing (we could say Product Vision if we wanted to sound more respectable) but because a couple years ago this sounded preposterously theoretical and fantastical and now it sounds inevitable and kind of obvious. We are making steady progress... »
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... »
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... »
Fake Data Is The Devil
Wednesday, June 9th, 2021
“I eagerly anticipate how you’re going to write a blog post about an infohazard.” — User in the Beeminder community Discord This is going to sound funny but we’ve toyed with having a rule in the Beeminder community against even mentioning the concept of fake data. Especially funny is that instead we’re doing the diametric opposite and... »
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Hello Bright Red Line
Thursday, May 27th, 2021
I believe this is our first blog post with a theme song. Remember last year when we replaced Beeminder’s Yellow Brick Road with a so-called »
How To Name Your Goals
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
The other day year doing support, we ran into someone with a goal named “studying_4_out_of_the_8_first_hours_of_the_day”. We were so offended by this that we’re writing a whole blog post about how not-ok that goalname is. Beeminder is highly »