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by dreeves 11y ago
Here's our (Beeminder's) answer to that astute objection: http://blog.beeminder.com/perverse/ In short, our interests and our customers' interests turn out to be highly aligned, even though it seems prim
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by dreeves 11y ago
OMG yes, that article is from before we actually launched. We've made, let's see, 1789 user-visible improvements since then -- http://beeminder.com/meta/uvi It's still confusing and nerd-centric and we&#
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by dreeves 11y ago
Holy cow, you made my day! <blush> Thank you! Fascinating what you said in another comment about the catch 22 of remembering and sticking to plans when you're feeling good. Actually, I'm realizing I'm confused about thi
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by dreeves 11y ago
Thanks so much for saying so! Maybe I'll also take this excuse to highlight the footnote in the article: > Thanks to my friends at Beeminder for some of the ideas I mention here. You can see their full article [ http://blo
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by dreeves 11y ago
Any thoughts on how this compares to MPLD3? http://mpld3.github.io/
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by dreeves 11y ago
I'm tempted to quibble that you can use Beeminder without a credit as long as you never go off track. But ultimately I think you're right, we're guilty of this. Ideally the Quantified Self part and the commitment contract par
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by dreeves 11y ago
Absolutely. In fact, that's the next piece of advice in that blog post. Excerpt: "The best-friend heuristic has another benefit: If a user is ever frustrated or annoyed or hostile, put on rose-colored glasses and willfully reinter
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by dreeves 11y ago
Funny, I just wrote "The Out-Loud-To-Your-Friend-Constraint For Writing" -- http://expost.padm.us/outloud (It's kind of self-indulgent musing on the idea of constraints for writing.) And for customer support
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by dreeves 11y ago
Others have mentioned the Flic and Amazon's Dash buttons. Here's the one I'm most excited about, which should (when they have an IFTTT channel) make things like the Netflix Switch doable for non-nerds: http://www.d
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by dreeves 11y ago
Here's the key part: IF I say "I/we should do X" THEN I take some immediate action that gets me slightly closer to X happening. And to excerpt the conclusion: ...the idea is to take some action, no matter how tiny, as a
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The Anti-Resolution Resolution(blog.beeminder.com)
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by dreeves 11y ago
Am I right to be excited about http://letsencrypt.org being about to make all of this much more sane? General availability on 2015 Sept 14.
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by dreeves 12y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! In addition to not wanting a minimum, it's also bad to fix the number of samples. Then you know that the more you get sampled the less likely additional samples are. Might not matter for some applications
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by dreeves 12y ago
Asker of the StackOverflow question here! (And payer of the 500-point bounty to the author of HiScore, which I think is brilliant!) I'm excited about this for the potential applications for personal (or startup) goal tracking, like tur
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by dreeves 12y ago
Thanks for the Beeminder plug! Our GitHub integration is at http://gitminder.com
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by dreeves 12y ago
Really good advice here. One thing I particularly liked is the advice to email the first 1000 users manually and only set up automated drip campaigns as a way to automate what you find yourself sending over and over. I'd also like to a
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Beeminder + Zapier = Zapminder(zapminder.com)
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HabitRPG + Beeminder integration/partnership(blog.habitrpg.com)
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by dreeves 12y ago
Ha, nice! I mean, "onomastics" really should win simply for already being the established term. But if one were picking the name from scratch then I'd say "nominology" has probably... * greater evocativity (
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by dreeves 12y ago
As the original author of that article, I declare this nominologist-approved! :) Your analysis on each dimension seems spot on to me. Yay http://fogbeam.com ! PS: I don't think verbability is a total fail either. Hard to pr
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by dreeves 12y ago
Delighted that this is one of the first comments! :) Note the update on the "nominology" article: "As soon as this went to print, Rob Felty (a linguist) informed me that the established term for what I've called nominolo
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by dreeves 12y ago
Quoting myself from the hovertext on the "Yahoo" scores: > Yahoo is of course googlable today but from the perspective of choosing new names, anything that's a dictionary word isn't very unique
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by dreeves 12y ago
Ironically, for a so-called goal-tracking website, Beeminder's philosophy quite agrees with this. Namely, it's not about goals that you'll at some point reach and be done with. It's about setting up a system to force you
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by dreeves 12y ago
Oops, that one got blocked for copyright (I set it to Blitzkrieg Bop). Let's try this one: http://youtu.be/giBIJW-2hro
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by dreeves 12y ago
As promised, MANIAC WEEKEND: http://youtu.be/VwOCXRp1zn4
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by dreeves 12y ago
Eventually! We're working (very gradually -- http://beeminder.com/d/boss ) on open-sourcing Beeminder. In fact, doing so is also inspired by Nick Winter and CodeCombat: http://blog.codecombat.com/we
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by dreeves 12y ago
Thanks so much for saying so, Kevin! And we'll be hugely grateful for feedback, especially insights on the downs you mention (be really blunt! it's good for us!). And of course you should either beemind that long email or send thi
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by dreeves 12y ago
Or, of course, Beeminder itself! (But, yes, we love the "craigslist slapper guy", as many people seem to know him. That's in fact Maneesh Sethi, who's launching a Beeminder competitor, http://pavlok.com )
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by dreeves 12y ago
Eep, anyone know whether a seizure trigger warning might be prudent? It doesn't seem that frenetic to me, but I'm not an expert either. Now I'm really curious if youtube could algorithmically detect that. PS: Thanks for the
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by dreeves 12y ago
A more reasonable definition might be "5pm Friday till whenever you go to sleep Sunday night" but this is not about being reasonable (quite the opposite). I have no particular attachment to my sleep schedule so I'm hoping I&#

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