{"id":1083,"date":"2015-07-24T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T18:01:33","slug":"being-mindful-of-beeminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/07\/24\/being-mindful-of-beeminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Mindful of Beeminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/beeminder.com\">Beeminder<\/a> occasionally. The site&#8217;s emails normally suffice to bug me into accomplishing whatever I&#8217;ve committed to doing. But I only use it for a few tasks for which my motivation is marginal. Most of the times that I consider using Beeminder, I either figure out how to motivate myself properly, or (more often) decide that my goal isn&#8217;t important.<\/p>\n<p>The real value of Beeminder is that if I want to compel future-me to do something, I can&#8217;t give up by using the excuse that future-me is lazy or unreliable. Instead, I find myself wondering why I&#8217;m unwilling to risk $X to make myself likely to complete the task. That typically causes me to notice legitimate doubts about how highly I value the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Beeminder occasionally. The site&#8217;s emails normally suffice to bug me into accomplishing whatever I&#8217;ve committed to doing. But I only use it for a few tasks for which my motivation is marginal. Most of the times that I consider using Beeminder, I either figure out how to motivate myself properly, or (more often) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[27],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind","tag-willpower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-ht","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}