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Beeminder ♥ trydeepwork.com

Thursday, May 25th, 2023
Beeminder ♥ trydeepwork.com

We’re excited to announce our official integration with trydeepwork.com! See also the announcement on the trydeepwork blog which is also a pretty brilliant introduction to Beeminder’s philosophy. Cal Newport’s classic book Deep Work is quite popular with Beeminder users [1], so we predict a lot of you will... »

Smithing Your Habits

Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
Smithing Your Habits

This is a guest post by Melissa Smith of Datasmithing! If you like Beeminder and other Beeminder-adjacent things like BaaS or Complice, but want more troubleshooting and guidance, you might like Datasmithing. (You might also like her blog which includes such gems as the graph paper... »

Beeminder ♥ Lichess

Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Beeminder ♥ Lichess

The Beeminder Lichess integration is officially launched! Lichess is basically the cool kids version of Chess.com. As yet more evidence of what huge »

Derailing It Is Nailing It

Friday, March 24th, 2023
Derailing It Is Nailing It

We’ve talked before about how paying is not punishment because derailing is not failing, but fellow workerbee Clive pointed out that we could flip that negative formulation around. Derailing isn’t... »

Orange Is The New Red

Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Orange Is The New Red

Once upon a time, I had a prescheduled one-day break on all my Beeminder goals. I’d had something on my calendar that day and, thanks to my »

Beeminder ♥ The StoryGraph

Thursday, August 4th, 2022
Beeminder ♥ The StoryGraph

It’s official! The Beeminder StoryGraph integration! The StoryGraph is basically a better, nerdier version of GoodReads. I don’t think it’s much of a secret that I really (really really really) love books and reading. I’ve talked about it on the... »

Beeminder Goes To Copenhagen

Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Beeminder Goes To Copenhagen

Hej venner! We (Danny and Bee, that is) are on the right (as in “dexter”, not necessarily “correct”) side of the Atlantic Ocean for a bit. Come meet up with us and discuss Beemindery things, like group goals, commitment devices, auctions, and algorithms for participatory democracy? Meet me in Copenhagen? Date/time: Tuesday, July 19, 16:30 Location: Bastard Café Huset... »

Beeminder ♥ freeCodeCamp

Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Beeminder ♥ freeCodeCamp

We’re pretty enamored with integrating with learn-to-code tools. Most recently CodeCombat and »

Backlog Freshening

Friday, March 18th, 2022
Backlog Freshening

Last time we talked about the control systems approach to backlogs. Quick recap: make a manual do-more goal where you add a +1 for completing something and keep adjusting the slope of the bright red line such that the backlog keeps steadily shrinking. This works not just for clearing a backlog but for winning the red queen race — dispatching things at roughly the rate they're coming in at and preventing another backlog from accumulating.... »

Control Systems For Backlogs

Saturday, March 5th, 2022
Control Systems For Backlogs

Saying “control system” makes this sound fancier than it is. We mean it in the simplest sense, like how your thermostat is a control system. The temperature dropping makes your heater turn on, which makes the temperature rise, which makes your heater turn off. Slightly fancier is if the heater dials itself up gradually... »