And for me it’s how to not pour every drop of creative energy and drive into productivity for the sake of productivity. How to not crank too much, to use an old term. A productivity-life balance problem, if you will.
But do you really care? Even when doing a yearly review (which took about 4 weekends in total) I did not need that data. What I do need is the kinda good feeling that I did the thing and will continue doing the thing.
At least for me, that’s not as relevant as if I feel they are a burden. I understand that there can be some feedback looping going with one’s own hesitation to send out not-legit emails and the thought that other’s might think receiving those is a burden to them, but for me it’s just more about my own not wanting to do it, because I would like to have better things to do (like drying my macbook or doing a thing I actually care about) and so I try to do things that I think are better things to do instead.
I agree with that wholeheartedly. But I’m torn also. (Is that even possible?!) On the one hand this is exactly how I feel and I always, if I’m completely honest, squirm a little when we oversimplify the breadth and especially the possible breadth of ways to use beeminder. On the other hand I like to theorize about beeminder as a thing that makes a difference in people’s lives and how we could get a grasp on some of what the existence of beeminder might mean. 