The backstory starts in 2005 when Bethany and I were dating and I was
writing my dissertation. I’d been dragging it out forever so Bethany
concocted a Voluntary Harassment Program, as she called it, and we
tried out all kinds of crazy incentive schemes and productivity hacks.
They apparently worked, since I got my PhD that year.
(It hadn’t occurred to me till we were answering that interview
question that the seeds of Beeminder were planted in 2005!)
The backstory starts in 2005 when Bethany and I were dating and I was
writing my dissertation. I’d been dragging it out forever so Bethany
concocted a Voluntary Harassment Program, as she called it, and we
tried out all kinds of crazy incentive schemes and productivity hacks.
They apparently worked, since I got my PhD that year.
(It hadn’t occurred to me till we were answering that interview
question that the seeds of Beeminder were planted in 2005!)