meanwhile on the beeminder forum: triangular beeminding, alcohol, and books

[dreev]

We’ve successfully moved critical mass to the new forum.beeminder.com
(it’s super great!). If you’re reading this you are so 2014. But this
email is me trying out using this google group for pointers to the
best forum posts.

Right now the buzz is in this discussion on beeminding alcohol:

Triangular beeminding for tracking alcohol consumption

This is an experimental goal I’m running that whomever was behind the twitter account today suggested I should post about here, so here I am. I drink a little too much. Not like “I have a problem” too much, but more like “I could probably stand to have maybe 2 or 3 fewer drinks a week” too much. I’ve previously beeminded units of alcohol consumption and concluded that actually measured as a number of units per week I’m fine. Certainly well within the recommended health guidelines - mos…

If you want something less daunting, here’s a short collection of book
recommendations:

Book Recommendations

In response to the recent thread on Slate Star Codex’s take on Baumeister’s “Willpower”, someone asked for book recommendations. Here are the first ones that came to mind: Ainslie’s Breakdown of Will Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow (not directly related to willpower) Nick Winter’s The Motivation Hacker Akst’s We Have Met the Enemy Ayres’s Carrots and Sticks (and a paper by the other StickK cofounder is very good but very academic) Schelling’s Choice and Consequenc…

Here’s everything in the Akrasia category:

Akrasia

And for discussion of my (ab)use of good old Akratics Anonymous:

Moving from Google Groups

Do you think we should turn off the Akratics Anonymous Google Group? What about importing the archives?

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