Sources and Methods #23: Beeminder

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Beeminder Blog

Beeminder Forum

Daniel Reeves (twitter / github / beeminder goals / Messy Matters blog)

Bethany Soule (homepage / twitter / github)

 

Show Notes:

3:10 - Alex’s Arabic routine

 

4:35 - Quantified Self

Sources and Methods talks Quantified Self with Ernesto Ramirez

 

5:40 - Mathematica

Beeminder’s Yellow Brick Road

 

7:08 - UVI goals (blogpost)

UVI Beeminder goal

UVI twitter account

 

8:10 - Tagtime (Google Android Store)

“TagTime: Stochastic Time Tracking for Space Cadets”

 

8:47 - RescueTime

RescueTime and Beeminder (integration)

“Beeminder ♥ RescueTime”

 

10:35 - PhDs and Beeminder

 

12:09 - Nick Winter

Nick Winter book, The Motivation Hacker

Nick Winter’s Beeminder account

 

16:10 - Hyperbolic discounting (wiki)

“Flexible Self-Control” (Messy Matters)

 

19:27 - Willpower (list of books)

Baumeister’s ego depletion model (wiki)

Carol Dweck’s counterarguments

Akrasia (wiki)

Akrasia (Messy Matters)

Beeminder Blog (posts tagged with ‘Akrasia’)

 

22:45 - OKRs and goals

 

23:00 - “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”

Scott Adams - “Goals are for Losers. Passion is Bull$%&#”

Scott Adams - “Goals vs. Systems”

“systems for ever increasing awesomeness”

 

24:20 - SMART goals (wiki)

SMART(ER) goals Beeminder blogpost

 

27:30 - “trying to avoid the question of willpower”

“Beating Beeminder Burnout”

 

29:30 - Success Spirals

Nick Winter - “Spiralling Into Control”

 

30:25 - “The Road Dial and the Akrasia Horizon”

 

31:00 - Habitica (formerly known as HabitRPG)

Beeminder’s list of their competitors

 

33:45 - Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit

34:05 - Buster Benson - “Behaviour change is belief change”

35:40 - BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits

36:00 - Pavlok

37:00 - Negative reinforcement (wiki)

39:10 - Beeminder bracelet

 

39:45 - Mark Forster’s To Do List system

The various versions of Mark Forster’s systems

 

41:05 - Beemind.me

Trello fading cards (aging)

 

41:50 - GTD Review

 

42:35 - Bargaining in relationships

“For Love and/or Money: Financial Autonomy in Marriage”

“The Couple That Pays Each Other to Put Kids to Bed”

 

43:05 - Game Theory (wiki)

43:40 - Fox News - “Could bidding on chores help your marriage?”

45:35 - “Beeminder’s Youngest User”