Awww, it's the inaugural post on the Beeminder blog! I'd be delighted to answer questions about this. I think the summary is that hyperbolic discounting is the

Awww, it's the inaugural post on the Beeminder blog! I'd be delighted to answer questions about this. I think the summary is that hyperbolic discounting is the cause of procrastination (and other forms of akrasia) and the solution is commitment devices. Beeminder takes a quantified-self approach to commitment devices which we think is especially powerful and flexible.