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Book Review: How To Change
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
Earlier this year we completed a lovely Beeminder book club to read behavioral scientist Katy Milkman’s new book, »
Calendialing
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
This is adapted from a forum post which was adapted from a daily beemail which was adapted from a fiftieth of Brent Yorgey’s brilliant, »
Nicky’s Secret To Beeminding Studying: It’s About Time
Friday, November 12th, 2021
We are overdue for a blog post about using Beeminder for school and studying. In the very early days of Beeminder, we had a brilliant guest post from Gandalf Saxe when he was a wee undergrad. Now he’s an engineer at Apple, working on Siri. We’re going to go ahead... »
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... »
Make A Plan To Forget
Thursday, August 26th, 2021
This is going to sound painfully obvious at first — “Don’t assume you’ll remember things! Create reminders!” — but bear with me. There are two useful, nonobvious things here: Sometimes you think of something you need to remember while, say, driving, or talking to someone. You can’t always email yourself or write something down but you can still do something like... »
Beeminder ♥ CodeCombat
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Fun fact that is not remotely a coincidence: The founder and CEO of CodeCombat is a friend and Beeminder superfan and previous guest blogger here on the Beeminder blog! In fact, ... »
Beeminder ♥ Pocket
Monday, July 5th, 2021
Fractional Beeminding
Friday, July 2nd, 2021
Bethany previously described this basic idea at the end of my old Bucketminding post. »