# Original "yellow brick halfplane" discussion?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/original-yellow-brick-halfplane-discussion/5422>\
**Category:** Newbee\
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/original-yellow-brick-halfplane-discussion/5422 "2019-06-06T07:43:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/original-yellow-brick-halfplane-discussion/5422/2 "2019-06-06T07:46:15Z")

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Thanks for asking! Here’s the background:

> [@Progress Report on Yellow Brick Half-Plane](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/progress-report-on-yellow-brick-half-plane/3628):
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> Content warning: Way more nitty-gritty than an end user of Beeminder could reasonably care about. But maybe you unreasonably care about it? Either way, Beeminder is going to be way better for everyone when this is done. Background: Yellow Brick Whatnow? To start at the very beginning… The Yellow Brick Road is the path on your graph that starts at the current value of the metric you’re minding and ends at where you want it to be, or perhaps soars upward indefinitely. (Related: [Why Beeminder like…](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/why-beeminder-likes-cumulative-graphs/498)

It is, shamefully, still not done!

But I should also say that as a new user you should definitely not be worried about all that. Your intuition is correct that the yellow brick road is already conceptually a yellow brick half-plane in that it’s fine to either be on the road or on the good side of the road (above the road for typical do-more style goals).

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