Cool!
How does the morning thing work out for you? Is your schedule / what you’re
beeminding sufficiently flexible that you can manage to take mornings to
focus on it?
I don’t think the 7 day buffer is actually any harder than a shorter one.
It just requires more initial work. Once you’re on target they move at the
same rate.
BTW, your email suggests that most days are a beeminder emergency day for
you. That sounds extreme. Is that a normal usage pattern? How many goals do
you have? Are they all designed to push you quite hard?
David
P.S. For those who were waiting with bated breath to find out if I
derailed, turns out things were less extreme than I feared. I’ve actually
managed to get things under control. For the moment at least I have
everything with more than 7 days of buffer, though gym is going to fall off
that tomorrow.
Hi David!
That’s pretty awesome. I’ve beeminded my beeminding using a less ambitious
(and sadly manual) idea. It’s taken 2 forms over time:
JFDI Before Lunch : I have to despatch all of my beemergencies in the
morning. Danny used a more extreme version, in which he didn’t eat anything
before getting his beemergencies out of the way. Here’s how I described it
at the time:
I have a meta goal (pjh/jfdi) that encourages me to get beemergencies out
of
the way before lunch. It started life as a binary, but that soon got out
of
hand… so now I count fractional success: e.g. if there are 5
beemergencies
today and I get 2 of them done before lunch, then thats 0.4 points. The
akratic nirvana of having safety buffer on all goals is worth 1 point.
“before lunch” turns out to be usefully soft. It’s not a hard deadline
like
midnight or 3AM, so it helps me think about whether eating right now is
what
my body needs, or whether I can fit a task in first, (or whether lunch is
worth an extra $5 today!). Certainly it means that I’m more likely to be
free in the evenings.
Current weekly slope is 4, meaning that slightly more that half of my
beemergencies need to be dealt with promptly each day. The goal text says
it
all: eep-less-ness.
After doing that for a while, I realised that I needed to move my planning
further upstream. Not just doing things in the morning, but making sure
that my entire set of goals was manageable. Here’s the fine print from that
goal
Every now and again, I will get all of my goals into blue or green, so
that
there are no emergency days on the following day.
Orange goals are allowed, but they must have a tick-mark. This in
particular
includes the subset of goals that can be done at most once per day.
Goals that can’t be decided until the day itself don’t count.
I’m really glad that someone has started down the path of automating the
beeminding of their beeminding. I think there’s a rich vein of
functionality in there. Thanks for sharing your script.
Philip
beeminder.com — for your important goals
On 10 July 2014 20:41, David MacIver david@drmaciver.com wrote:
Initial feedback: Oh gods was I overoptimistic about the rate setting. I’m
probably going to derail this due to bad planning.
I think 1/day is perfectly reasonable long term, but it’s a lot harder to
clear down from 2 a day to 1 a day than I was thinking (because you
probably need to do about a week’s worth of goal!).
On the plus side, it’s definitely working to achieve the intended result.
I’ve got a lot of gym time and reading done since starting this.
On 10 July 2014 00:00, Daniel Reeves dreeves@beeminder.com wrote:
Love it! To repeat what we chimed in with on twitter, here’s a related
idea we’ve been kicking around:
Trello
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:58 PM, David MacIver david.maciver@gmail.com
wrote:
Here’s a thing I’ve done that might be of general interest:
I wanted to get into a beeminding usage pattern that involved fewer eep
days and more of a buffer on my goals, so I created a beeminder goal for
doing so.
Basic idea: Have a “do less” goal for having goals with less than a week
of buffer left, automated by a python script (
https://github.com/DRMacIver/feedthebee/blob/master/backpressure.py)…
I’m allowed a rate of 7/week, which means that if I have a single goal
which is approaching its deadline I’m fine but if I have two then I will
start to derail.
I wrote a bit more about this here:
Playing beeminder on hard mode by adding backpressure | David R. MacIver
David
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