Nothing particular to report this week—just kind of holding steady on everything.
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Cool cleaning-tracking system. How has it felt to keep up with? I like the way you put less-frequent stuff on the same list as more-frequent by changing how many “day-equivalent points” the task is worth.
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I think it has been going well!
I ought to make it stricter. In principle, the spreadsheet would support a version of the goal where I need to enter a data point every day, but in practice I only enter a data point on days I am forced to.
In practice, despite this fact, my apartment is on average far tidier now than it was under the old regime. Despite all the tasks like “clean bathtub” with big numbers, indeed kondo marie–style “tidiness” was the original idea, rather than “cleaning” per se—things like “does this counter have literally zero objects on it”. But i think the things like “clean bathtub” are also working well.
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No need for spreadsheet shenanigans to make that work.
I use a meta goal for things like this, where the red_clean (love it!) data triggers a +1 on another Beeminder goal. On the website, choose Beeminder as the data source for your new goal.
I’ve got several of these that make sure that I enter data at least every few days, as distinct from making progress on the goal itself which sometimes builds up safety buffer.
Super useful for making sure to stand on the scales regularly, to study Anki regularly, to sync TagTime regularly, to not let too many days pass between doing exercise, etc.
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Yeah, I’ll consider a meta goal forcing me to enter data more frequently on red_clean, it would be a good idea…
Anyway, today I’m dialing. I’m going to need to ratchet a few goals, so let me explain my philosophy there.
Whenever a goal gets over 1 week of buffer (unless it’s something I only mean to do monthly, or something like weight which fluctuates too much), I ratchet it or increase the slope.
- If the goal is one where I want to become “more awesome”, I increase the slope (with no akrasia horizon, using the road editor) until the remaining buffer goes down to 1 week OR the increase in rate is by a factor of 2 (in which case, move on to next step). Note that on do-less goals, increasing the slope doesn’t actually decrease the buffer, so we’d just go with a flat 10% reduction in rate, then go on to the next step.
- Otherwise, just ratchet down to a week of buffer.
New goals
fatebook, using the new integration! We’ll see how it goes.
Derails
On running, yet again. Ugh. I was in the red and it was snowing. And my building, built for warm weather, even requires me to go outside to go to the gym…
Ratcheting
fatebook , protein, beeminder_forum, and calories need ratcheting.
calories is a bit dangerous since I think I’m still not tracking perfectly and I’m actually eating more than I’m recording, so actually I’m just going to cut the buffer down instead of reducing the slope on that one.
Breaks
None
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I’m going to increase the slopes on my anki_rotestock and protein goals, since they both have more than a week of buffer! Other than that, nothing to report!
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Again, didn’t derail on anything this week, and the calendar doesn’t mandate any dialing in the next couple weeks.
I do, however, have more than a week of buffer on anki_rotestock, so I’ll increase the slope on it again!
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Ah, I neglected to post when I dialed.
This week I did the calendial early because I had to make a lot of last-minute plans for next week so it seemed prudent to immediately apply a one-week break on all my goals (nothing to worry about, just last minute!).
I did have one derailment this week—on the urgency_load goal. It mostly happened because I was out past midnight and my phone died around 11:30—I probably could have found a goal that I could do something on on my phone (e.g., fatebook) to get out of the red, otherwise. (of course, I would have also had to enter the data manually instead of using the script, since I didn’t have my computer). Oh well.
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This week I derailed on both urgency_load and fatebook because I started thinking about work close to midnight and forgot about them. Whoops…
I am travelling for a few days next week so I am going to put breaks on a few goals which are hard to do while travelling.
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This has been dead for a while, I’m going to try to resume it.
New goals, derails, breaks: None
Slope changes / ratcheting: Faculty job application season is starting, so I turned my application toggl goal back up.
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Somewhat uneventful week, as far as beeminder goes.
Slope changes / ratcheting:
weight: I’m going to reduce the slope a bit, because I’m finding that I occasionally need to do things I’d rather not do (like fasting until dinner) to avoid derailing. Also because I’m trying to increasing the slope on protein, which will be easier at first if I’m a bit less worried about hitting a certain weight TODAY.
protein: I was originally going to wait until I got a week of buffer to increase the slope, but whatever, I’m just going to increase the slope a bit, and gradually bring it up.
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Derails, breaks: None
New goals: As discussed in Once more unto the breach: yet another phone-usage goal , I’m going to archive phones-outside-zones and try a different goal. I guess I’ll just be boring and call it phone-away.
Slope changes / ratcheting: None, although I have more than a week of buffer on alcohol, so maybe if I still do a week from now I’ll go ahead and make the goal stricter.
Derails, Breaks, New goals: None
Slope changes / ratcheting: I reduced the slope on my alcohol do-less goal a bit (I had given myself a very lenient slope, now I’m going to start to actually reduce my consumption).
The next couple weeks are pretty much normal, don’t think I need to make any other adjustments.
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Nothing this week. Nothing at all.
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I’m ratcheting my calorie goal’s buffer down a bit and reducing the slope. Otherwise nothing to report!
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Derailments: I derailed on running since a small injury (from something else) made it too painful to run. Should be fine to run next week though, so I won’t bother adjusting the road any further.
No changes while calendialing!
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No changes this week, although I should start keeping holiday travel in mind!
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