# shanaqui's Beeminder Journal: 2021

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaquis-beeminder-journal-2021/7622>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [January 3, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaquis-beeminder-journal-2021/7622 "2021-01-03T12:44:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/shanaquis-beeminder-journal-2021/7622/20 "2021-04-11T00:51:06Z")

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## Derailments:

- The good streak was bound to end someday…
- [/hollywoodhomicide](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/hollywoodhomicide) - Not a book I was enjoying, so I set this to archive and let it derail, as discussed in the [reading goal dilemma](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/reading-goal-dilemma/9167) thread.
- [/raybearer](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/raybearer) - I am not 100% loving this book, which probably explains how I came to forget all about it today during my day off. It’s not _bad_, just not really holding my attention; it’s a little _young_, I guess.

## New goals:

- [/sciencefictions](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/sciencefictions) - A reading goal for _Science Fictions_ by Stuart Ritchie, about fraud and bias in science. Very good read – so much so that I actually finished it in 24 hours. So this goal is also now archived.
- [/reinventingthewheel](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/reinventingthewheel) - For reading Bronwen and Francis Percival’s book on “milk, microbes and […] real cheese”. Interesting so far, but also snobby about what counts as “real cheese”. Standard reading goal rules!
- [/checkmatetomurder](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/checkmatetomurder) - Reading goal for E.C.R. Lorac’s book of that title; already finished and archived. Predictably fun, since it was Lorac!

## Changes to existing goals:

- [/andonlytodeceive](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/andonlytodeceive) - Finished and archived! Pretty fun read.
- [/feedback-backlog](https://beeminder.com/shanaqui/feedback-backlog) - The one and only confusion-backlog goal, just renamed to match the tag I use in emails! And it’s done done done and dusted. Obviously categorising feedback is an ongoing task (which is in fact reflected in how long this took me – I didn’t isolate the backlog.

## Notes:

- The [reading goal dilemma thread](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/reading-goal-dilemma/9167) is a good discussion of how to handle goals that might be at odds with your larger goals (like, in my case, “only read when it’s fun”).

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