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| bio | website | ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/… |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | May 21 at 21:14 | |
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Startup: Beeminder.com
Blog: MessyMatters.com
Homepage: Dreev.es
Favorite programming language: Mathematica
Random fact: Dreeves is an ultra-marathon inline skater
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Nov 15 |
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Why am I wired to be motivated to go to work everyday and not motivated to do other things? Good answer! beeminder.com tries to harness some of these principles. |
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Nov 8 |
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What is the most radical productivity technique that you successfully use? IMHO Beeminder is really good about being flexible but not too flexible. One way it does that is by letting you build up a safety buffer, "getting ahead of the yellow brick road," in Beeminderspeak. |
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Feb 21 |
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How can I list down website passwords for better productivity? No no, you should only reuse passwords on sites you don't care about. Using a long, "secure" password doesn't help at all if you use it on a site that stores it in plaintext and then gets hacked. Getting your password bruteforced is the least of your worries. |
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Jan 22 |
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How do I make myself stop doing addictive activity? Btw, I can tell you that in practice, abuse of a Force Majeure clause (the "SOS clause", as we more commonly call it) just never happens. |
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Jan 22 |
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How do I make myself stop doing addictive activity? Thanks Denis! Great points, though I disagree with the otherwise sage Dr Goldstein on both those reasons for shunning commitment devices. A crutch? Please. If it works, it works! And as for weaseling, that just means you didn't set up a very good commitment device. In my biased opinion, Beeminder will be your salvation there! :) The stronger argument against commitment devices is the inherent cost of limiting your future flexibility. Here again I think Beeminder shines, cutting the inflexibility to the bare minimum with a one week "akrasia horizon". |
