I was thinking about what to do in the shower this morning, and I was considering yet again making some kind of “process goal” that I hope will somehow make me more productive, since work remains the thing I want to improve at the most this year. Something about GTD-style weekly reviews, or monthly plans, or something. But then I read the goals here and kind of felt these were too boring and abstract and frankly not really a challenge—either you do the thing every week or not. Maybe I’ll try something for February’s New Month’s resolution.
Instead, I will do one thing which is still helpful for work but a bit more Classic Beeminder, and a second thing which isn’t work at all.
No excuses: I want to get to bed by 23:00 more consistently. I’m going to make a goal poisson/sleepyhead, imitating Ceph’s goal. Basically, the idea is a do-more goal where I get 1 point for going to bed on time, 0.5 points for being one minute late, and then a smoothly decaying amount after that. This has to be in the “no excuses” challenge because I’m really not sure what the right slope is, and I’m going to be adjusting it a bunch.
No derailing: I’ve handled becoming vegan pretty well (now 6 or 7 months in?) but it’s definitely decreased the variety of things I cook. I’m going to make a goal to cook something new once a week, possion/kitchen_innovations. What “new” means is a bit ambiguous—if I just try subbing out a single ingredient, is it something new? I think the only way to really have a hard, unambiguous line is to make things pretty lenient, so I will. If a single ingredient or step has changed, it counts as a new recipe. If the amount of an ingredient has changed by at least 50%, it counts as a new recipe. In practice I want to mostly cook things completely different from things I’ve cooked before rather than having to check if something’s over the line, however.