The book has six main parts, each in the neighborhood of 30-60 pages. Those seem like decent increments for discussion to me, so I propose the following strawman reading schedule:
Data points in the future should show up as “faint” bullets. Not sure what happens with hashtags. Do you have them turn on? The default is that they are not part of the graph.
By the way, that’s a cool idea, making deadlines in the future with hashtags!
Thanks for checking. I had the same settings, it didn’t show up. Used the phone for input, then it worked.
But now… I am wondering if
2018 12 15
might actually be interpreted as the 12th in the 15th month of 2018? I am always confused by non-monotonously increasing or decreasing [1] date formats.
[1] Is there a less technical description of mm/dd/yyyy or yyyy/dd/mm?
Beeminder dates are YYYY-MM-DD, so 2018 12 15 is “2018 December 15”. We use this date format because it goes largest->smallest (as years > months > days), and is sortable! … (American schools teach kids garbage for dates. and 12-hour time. Programmer parent’s nightmare!).
Yes! I can understand smallest-to-largest and largest-to-smallest, but everything else throws me off.
That means it wasn’t the date at least. It also wasn’t the X-max, I had adjusted that before. But it has worked every time since, so everything’s good.
@clarissalittler and @apolyton: I am not intending to book-club shame you, but we didn’t hear from you in the discussion last week. Is the pace still OK, or should we slow down and give you a chance to catch up?
Oh well the problem I’m having is the same problem I had with Willpower Instinct. I burned through it in an afternoon, wrote down my thoughts, and now am not sure how to chronologically disentangle my notes to only be about particular sections since I don’t have the book anymore.
There’s no harm just sharing your thoughts on the book as a whole in this thread. If nothing else, we can tag you into particular threads if you had a comment pertinent to the discussion.
Thanks for the reminder! I had already read through the first parts by the time we setup this club and then got into a couple of other books. No need for a speed change!
I intended to update the table of contents for the discussion posts at the top of the thread, but I no longer have an edit button. Is there a limit on the number of allowed edits for a forum post?
