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I will break steaks in apps on purpose, to fight the gamification. At a certain point it is not really helping and just manipulating you for the application's

• samatman 4y ago
  I discovered this somewhat by accident when I started wearing an Apple Watch. Ended up with a ~400 day move streak. Yay me, right? Well. It got pretty annoying toward the end, having to wear the damn thing every day. It kinda creeped up on me, one of those things where the motive to just not wear a watch for a day is low, so why not put it on and keep up my streak? But cumulatively? There's a huge difference between mostly wearing a watch and always wearing a watch. It was a relief when I busted it, finally, for two reasons: I could have a normal relationship with the device on my wrist, and I was in no danger of ever setting another record streak. After that I deliberately bust streaks in apps at a number I choose in advance, something like 50 or 100.