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This post on LessWrong explains why we think we're better than StickK: http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z1/antiakrasia_tool_like_stickkcom_for_data_nerds/ http://lesswr
by dreeves 15y ago
This post on LessWrong explains why we think we're better than StickK: http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z1/antiakrasia_tool_like_stickkcom_for_data_nerds/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z1/antiakrasia_tool_like_stickkcom_...
Excerpt:
StickK is just about the contracts -- Beeminder links it to your data. That has some big advantages:
1. You don't have to know what you're committing to when you commit, which sounds completely (oxy)moronic but what we mean is that you're committing to keeping your datapoints on a "yellow brick road" which you have control over as you go. You commit to something general like "work out more" or "lose weight" and then decide as you go what that means based on your data.
2. You have the flexibility to change your contract in light of new information (like, 40 hours of actual focused work per week is damn hard!). ...