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Orange Is The New Red
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
A Funny Story About “Backing Up Your Website”
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
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.... »
Is Beeminder Self-Blackmail?
Thursday, June 23rd, 2022
Beeminder But On The Blockchain?
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
Let us start by saving you a lot of time: No. Beeminder does not need to or want to be on the blockchain. Are you still here? We figured we’d write about this now because a new Beeminder competitor called »
Beeminder ♥ freeCodeCamp
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
We’re pretty enamored with integrating with learn-to-code tools. Most recently CodeCombat and »
Alliterative Alimentation
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022
Want to hear my latest weirdo approach to diet? Probably you do, out of morbid curiosity at least. My goal in concocting this was to implement something a bit like intermittent fasting as a weight management strategy, and also to nudge my eating in a healthier direction. Also I like alliteration. More to the point, I really thrive on... »
Backlog Freshening For Humans
Thursday, March 31st, 2022
This is a sequel to the previous post on Backlog Freshening. It’s been gratifying to hear testimonials from you all about how valuable you’ve found this — for tasks in TaskWarrior, songs in one’s piano... »
Backlog Freshening
Friday, March 18th, 2022
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
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... »
Death To Weaselproofing; Announcing No-Excuses Mode
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Previously on the blog, we pitched a particular framing of Beeminder in which paying is not punishment. People seem into it! Which is good because it was setting the stage for this announcement: We’ve killed the old »