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by dreeves 15y ago
I'd love to see the best of both worlds. I too love it when someone takes the time to summarize an article -- great community service. I'd love to establish a convention for doing so (I vote for prepending "Summary:" -- I find "tl;dr" irkso
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by dreeves 15y ago
I actually thought algorithmic summaries would be worse than useless but they seem surprisingly good. Here's the one from Caine's Arcade: "9 year old Caine sets up an arcade in his father’s used car parts store in East L.A., using only card
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by dreeves 15y ago
This is a thinly veiled pitch for my and Bethany Soule's startup -- Beeminder -- but I think think the Akrasia Horizon idea I wrote about in the article has scientific merit. Summary: Akrasia -- acting against one's own better judgment -- b
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Flexible Self-Control(messymatters.com)
18 points by dreeves 15y ago|2 comments
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by dreeves 15y ago
Just as an opposing data point, I have two small kids and would have no qualms about that at all.
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by dreeves 15y ago
Related: http://messymatters.com/nominology (discusses desiderata for names: evocativity, brevity, greppability, googlability, pronounceability, spellability, verbability)
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Portland Seed Fund announces 8 startups in new class(siliconflorist.com)
2 points by dreeves 15y ago|1 comments
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Patient of the Future (quantified self, crohn's disease, larry smarr)(technologyreview.com)
3 points by dreeves 15y ago|0 comments
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by dreeves 15y ago
For anyone who missed it, here's an idea for making progress bars way more fun: http://xkcd.com/1017 And I'll throw in this one just because it's funny (and quite on-topic): http://xkcd.com/612/
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by dreeves 15y ago
You might like TagTime: http://messymatters.com/tagtime (randomly sample yourself!)
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by dreeves 15y ago
See also: Ode to Power Laws http://messymatters.com/powerlaws
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by dreeves 15y ago
I'm curious, have others written posts like this on their company blog, extolling the virtues of (and linking to) your competitors?
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by dreeves 15y ago
Oy, really sorry about that. I guess we should take further discussion offline but I'm eager to understand what "like that" means. The word "gay" itself isn't offensive, I assume. I can't help but feel you must've taken it the wrong way. Bu
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by dreeves 15y ago
Eep, sorry, I don't want that to distract from the real point of the post! I think it will make sense if you check out the idea behind behind Aherk.
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by dreeves 15y ago
Relevant excerpt: It's funny how we once thought of it as worrisome to see other startups pursuing our idea. It's so clearly the opposite of worrisome! The more the merrier! All these startups are helping each other get the public exposed t
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In greenfield markets, your competitors are your friends(blog.beeminder.com)
15 points by dreeves 15y ago|7 comments
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by dreeves 15y ago
Thanks for the Beeminder plug! (I'm a co-founder.) As I just replied to another comment here about StickK, we think of ourselves as StickK.com for data nerds. We think we're drastically better than StickK for data-oriented goals (like weigh
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by dreeves 15y ago
Three cheers for StickK! Also would love to convince you to check out my startup -- http://beeminder.com -- which combines goal tracking with StickK-like commitment devices. Keep all your data points on a "yellow brick road" to your goal.
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by dreeves 15y ago
We wanted to be very conservative about our spamminess and decided to send one single email with explicit opt-in for more. We had links like this: * I'm a Beeminder groupie (email me daily if you want) * Keep me in the loop (email
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by dreeves 15y ago
I'm pretty excited about this movement (if it's fair to call it that yet) since my startup, Beeminder (mentioned in the article!), pretty much epitomizes the author's definition of Programmable Self (ie, quantified self + motivation hacks).
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Two dozen tools for tracking new year's resolutions(blog.beeminder.com)
2 points by dreeves 15y ago|0 comments
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3 Chrome bugs I've been bitten by
2 points by dreeves 15y ago|1 comments
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by dreeves 15y ago
Yeah, I personally really love the graphs that I don't have to manually enter data for, like my weight (we integrate with the Withings scale) or any time-based goal [ http://tagti.me ] or pushups (sort of, thanks to an Android app that Beth
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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_... Excerpt: StickK is just about the contracts -- Beeminder links it to your data. That has some big advan
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Review my startup: A tool to force yourself to waste less time on HN
29 points by dreeves 15y ago|5 comments
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by dreeves 15y ago
Ooh, I got kicked off a grand jury a couple years ago for telling my fellow jurors about jury nullification. I pointed them to this etherpad -- http://padm.us/jury -- where I was researching the question. I wasn't even sure at the time w
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by dreeves 15y ago
I think this needs a little more human curation. There are too many commit messages that are about internals that users really don't want to know about. Here's what we do: http://blog.beeminder.com/blogdog In short, we have a special twit
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by dreeves 15y ago
Good point, "do" is certainly more evocative a name than "cool" would be (unless the latter were in the refrigeration space). I think it's a lousy name otherwise though. It's, ironically, not even really verbable. Technically it is a verb b
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by dreeves 15y ago
Quoting Paul Graham [ http://messymatters.com/pgnames.html ]: "Nothing could be less cool, at this point, than calling a startup 'cool.com.' A company with a name like that could not have arisen organically. 'Cool.com' smells of a media con
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by dreeves 15y ago
I'd love to find something that could be worn as a necklace (even in the shower). My partner had a fitbit that died when it ended up going through the laundry.

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