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For Love and/or Money: Financial Autonomy in Marriage | Messy Matters
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Bring your own data. Laquo; Lies, Damned Lies, Rape, and Statistics. For Love and/or Money: Financial Autonomy in Marriage. Saturday, April 13, 2013. This is a guest post by Bethany Soule. With assistance from Daniel Reeves. Prescript: We realize how crazy this all sounds! Some of this bears uncomfortable resemblance to the kinds of things two raving Libertarian nutjobs [2]. Would say. (It’s not like that, baby, we swear it.) Nonetheless, this being the single most demanded article. Before we get too far...
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Tocks | Beeminder Blog
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Laquo; Beeminder Sleep as Android. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. If you’re reading the Beeminder blog there’s a 95% chance you know about the Pomodoro Technique. The idea is to decide a task, do focused work on it for 25 minutes, and then get up and take a 5-minute break. Rinse and repeat. Apparently it was invented in the 1980s but Danny. A variant around 2004 with 45-minute chunks of work and 15-minute breaks. [2]. We call one of these 45-minute pomodoros a. 1 Do hourly tocks. Danny wrote a script. Has me...
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Bethany’s Maniac Week | Beeminder Blog
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Laquo; Beating Beeminder Burnout. Clearing Up Confusion About Exponential Roads. Bethany’s Maniac Week. Friday, June 6, 2014. Last week Danny took our children to Canada while I attempted a Nick Winter style maniac week. It was delightful, though less epic than its namesake. Nonetheless it was a massively productive work week for me compared to my average. Here’s a time-lapse video of me working. [1]. Look how often I put my hand studiously on my chin! That ties Nick Winter’s precursor-maniac. In additio...
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Monkeys Are Afraid of Bees | Beeminder Blog
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Laquo; Case Study: Beemind Going Beyond Your Usual Routine. Dealing with Beemergencies in an Emergency. Monkeys Are Afraid of Bees. Thursday, April 9, 2015. This is a guest post by chipmanaged. We often describe guest post authors as “avid Beeminder users” but @chipmanaged. Tim Urban’s recent post on. About “ The Procrastination Matrix. And its earlier counterparts: “ Why Procrastinators Procrastinate. And How to Beat Procrastination. 8220;The monkey just doesn’t care about next week”. All in all, my bee...
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Smoking Sticks and Carrots | Beeminder Blog
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Laquo; If This MIND That: Beeminder IFTTT. Misfit and Bee-fit: Beeminder Misfit. Smoking Sticks and Carrots. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. This is crossposted on Messy Matters. Let’s talk about science! Beehavioral science. A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Last week has been all over the news. [1]. Who tout statistics about how 80% or whatever of people who risk money succeed. For starters they usually don’t even distinguish from the hypothesis of “people will lie. Then there was ...
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2014 | Beeminder Blog
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Beeminder Sleep as Android. Tuesday, December 30th, 2014. And one that I personally use daily (well, nightly). Sleep as Android. Is a popular sleep tracking app that’s delightfully nerdy and quantified-self focused. (Much like. ». Code and Catholicism: Beeminding Praying and Integrating Beeminder on iOS. Wednesday, December 10th, 2014. Last week Leah Libresco blogged about beeminding rituals. Thursday, December 4th, 2014. Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. So, if I turn to Beeminder to. ». It’s a ...
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2014 September | Beeminder Blog
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Archive for September, 2014. New Feature: Pledge Caps. Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014. The exponential pledge schedule is a key part of the, dare we say it, genius. Of Beeminder. It means you quickly reach a pledge that’s highly motivating and keeps you on track for a long time. But one more exponential step beyond “highly motivating” was. ». What To Mind: Picking a Metric. Saturday, September 13th, 2014. He points out that the most. ». Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014. We’re such press darlings! Check out ...
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Flexible Self-Control | Beeminder Blog
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Laquo; Why Weigh (Daily)? Quantified Self Talk: Beeminding Beeminder. Sunday, March 25, 2012. This article is cross-posted on Messy Matters. The problem of self-control may be a ridiculous first world problem but it’s the granddaddy of first world problems and I want to solve it. We live amidst a deluge of opportunities for instant gratification, especially in the form of food and entertainment, and most of us don’t handle it well. The general problem, known as akrasia. The reason is risk and uncertainty...
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Honeymoons, True Love, and Yet More Buzz. Tuesday, May 24, 2016. It’s one thing to see a gushing testimonial from someone in the honeymoon phase of using Beeminder. Professor Brent Yorgey. Wrote such a post in 2013 (“ ». What It Means To Give Beeminder Your Credit Card. Monday, May 9, 2016. One of the main things we’re working on right now is making Beeminder more comprehensible to newbees. We’ve even hired a web designer, Josh Pitzalis. 16 Obscure Beeminder Features. Tuesday, April 26, 2016. By scrappin...
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2014 October | Beeminder Blog
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Archive for October, 2014. Tuesday, October 28th, 2014. Yo Yo Yo and a buckle of gold, Beeminder just turned three years old! This time last year. We were sitting in a hotel in San Francisco during the Quantified Self global conference. Excited about our year. ». New Feature and Veritable Paradigm Shift: Arbitrary Deadlines. Monday, October 27th, 2014. A simple-seeming feature is now live: You can set custom deadlines on goals! Goals you’ve had a grace period. ». Friday, October 24th, 2014. Blog is writt...
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