Welcome to the Dreevpeeve of the day. I’ve actually seen “deprecate” misused so often that I was worried that, as usual, the prescriptivists would soon have to concede defeat. But so far all the dictionaries are holding firm. This is merely in the category of Common Misconception and so I’m doing my...

Welcome to the next post in our Freshening Series. Before we get to that, let’s review our related posts on clearing and preventing backlogs: Redqueening, Inbox Zero, Backlogs, and Fluid Dynamics describes Mark Forster’s Backlog Method — “isolate and redqueen” — using lots of analogies. Control Systems...

We’re thrilled and honored to welcome back to the blog the esteemed Mary Renaud, PhD. Though for now, only iPhone people can reap what Mary has sown… I’m excited to officially announce my first iOS app: Time Stream! What is Time Stream? Time Stream is a routine management app that adapts when your day...

We have a pair of blog posts from 2022 called “Backlog Freshening” and “Backlog Freshening For Humans” that we’re still very pleased with. To recap, say you have a backlog of something — tasks, emails, blog post drafts, bugs, you name it — that it’s not realistic to clear. (If you do need to clear it,...

The golden mean of Beeminder: If you never derail, dial up your bright red lines — if you’re derailing all the time, dial them down. Thanks to felixm and others in the forum for inspiring this post. The previous blog post in our series on how derailing is good-actually (see the sidebar for a review)...

We’re excited to officially announce our newest integration partner: Maayot! We’ve even got the Maayot folks here in their own words to tell you about it. Want an extra push to stay consistent with your Chinese reading? We (Maayot) are thrilled to announce our new integration with Beeminder, a powerful...

You know how if you just passively read a book you eventually forget literally everything you briefly learned? Possibly including the fact that you ever read the book at all, after enough years? Book brigades aim to solve that. A book brigade is a small group of very like-minded people collaborating on...

Tada! You can now beemind posting to the Beeminder forum, or any forum that uses the same forum software. Which is a lot of other fora. All the cool kids use it. It’s called Discourse. Not to be confused with Discord (more on this below), the instant messaging platform. Which, we suppose, is what the...

This is a slightly more polished version of something I posted in the Beeminder forum. The forum is also the place for ongoing discussion about this. OpenAI’s Deep Research tool was made available to premium users the other day and I tried it out with the following prompt: “What does the science say...

This is part 4 of our Melzaminder Series. Previously we introduced the Mindful Munching with Metrics program, talked about scale weight as a metric, and talked about proxy metrics more generally. Here we talk about how the Metrics part of Mindful Munching with Metrics work. Alright, any non-nerds who...