# aad's Calendialing Topic (Until Returns Diminish)

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658>\
**Category:** Life\
**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658 "2025-12-14T18:07:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![aad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/aad/32/4736_2.png) [@aad](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/aad)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658/21 "2026-03-27T15:56:31Z")

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Time for another update!

First a meta remark: I’m finding it difficult to figure out a good structure for these updates and parts of it feel a bit stale…

**I’m looking at Beebudget at 7, 14 and 30 days now.**

- The 7-day snapshot remains not very insightful in isolation. The 14d and 30d views reveal… a potentially scary situation.
- Total committed load looks like: 2.8 h/day at 7d → 3.9 h/day at 14d → 4.9 h/day at 30d.
- That 30 day rate is _very scary_ compared to 2.6 hours of non-work hours I’m dedicated to tracked activities.
- I can account for one of the ~2 hours between 7 day and 30 day difference, but not the other.
- Before I panic, I’ll be looking into improving time estimates of Beebudget by cross-referencing Beeminder deltas and Toggle data.

Besides those general points:

- Venture is **absent** at 7d (full buffer), 1.5% at 14d, only 5.2% at 30d. Beeminder demands ~15 min/day long-run for my #2 priority.

**Looking at Toggl data.**

- Venture: 25 min/day actual over 30 days, but only 6 min/day in the past week. That’s what happens when Beeminder isn’t biting… with a comfortable buffer, motivation alone doesn’t sustain the rate.

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Actions:

1. The key to improving Beebudget estimates is better correlating Toggle + Beeminder data. So I’m increasing my overall toggle-tracked hours goal.

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1. venture goal also gets a bump

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**Author:** ![aad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/aad/32/4736_2.png) [@aad](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/aad)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658/22 "2026-04-03T20:41:40Z")

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Time for another update!

I’ve reached the point where I’m hitting diminished returns with this approach. I’ve already spent 30 minutes of my [hobby-rest] time for improving [the process for] beebudget estimates today… so I’ll keep the update short.

- gissue-refresh-wr-ph: Goes up by 20% after the akrasia horizon. (This is a goal I’ve not yet written about, I think. It stands for “gissue-refreshing related to popular philosophy essay writing”.)
- gissue-refresh-ka-uv: Also goes up by 20% after the horizon. This is sort of a “UVI goal” related to venture theme.
- venture got a… complex bump. Amounts to 10% bump at a year horizon.

I’m almost there with tying beebudget estimates back to “beeminder delta over the past d days / Toggl tracked minutes in the same period.”

Overall, my goal remains the same: reflect a gradual increase of ambition in some areas of my life in my beeminder dashboard. I’d say this is still going on track. Having the beebudget give me a clearer picture will coincide with a period in which I want to increase the ambition level.

Looking forward!

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**Author:** ![aad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/aad/32/4736_2.png) [@aad](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/aad)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658/23 "2026-04-17T16:44:50Z")

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Another update. Since last time I’ve derailed twice. `run-sessions-25`: $5 (Apr 10), `epistemic-hygiene`: $5 (Apr 16). Return the effort for an update seems pretty low still, so I’ll keep it brief.

Reducing some study goals this cycle symbolically:

- `cs-comp-arch`, ~0.17 h/day → ~0.14 h/day

- `cs-prog-struc-interp`: ~0.21 h/day → ~0.18 h/day

I’ll start symbolically since having some extra free days here and there may just be enough. If not, I’ll probably decrease cs-comp-arch further.

My real focus will be realizing my “venture” commitment without overloading myself. In the past 30 days, it got 12.3h. My current commitment is ~0.5h/day.

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**Author:** ![aad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/aad/32/4736_2.png) [@aad](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/aad)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658/24 "2026-04-24T12:59:37Z")

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I’ve been thinking about how to move ahead with this topic.

The live question now is different: Can I push my venture output to another level?

Here’s the new playbook I’ll try.

- Review venture against past 30 days
  - Hours logged vs. current commitment(s)
  - Milestone status from last post

- Total load / beebudget output
  - Rolodex through goal configs one-at-a-time across posts (one or two per session) rather than all-at-once
  - Keep an eye on discretionary time budget

- Set next venture milestone
  - Falsifiable, verifiable by next post

I’m generally feeling pretty tired these days. I’ve had another derailment for one of my study goals, so I’ll dial down my study goals a little bit more, too.

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**Author:** ![aad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/aad/32/4736_2.png) [@aad](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/aad)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/aads-calendialing-topic-until-returns-diminish/12658/25 "2026-05-01T20:59:28Z")

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Things are moving in the right direction 📈

Since my last update, I’ve averaged 0.60h/day on my venture. I’ll call that an improvement over the 30d average of 0.47h/day.

Now aiming at: ≥0.75h/day venture average between now and the next calendialing session.

I’m curious how far I’ll go on motivation, so no rate changes this week.

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