Derailments so far
- running-sessions
- Second time in my life, I slept through my alarm on a work day. That put me off balance and I derailed on my running goal.
- The failure mode is familiar to me:
- <Failure on another goal I’m going to introduce here soon.>
- Which causally interrelated with (1) me having very low self-control and (2) having acted in ways that further reduce my executive functioning capacity.
- <Failure on another goal I’m going to introduce here soon.>
Running while on vacation
Despite having just railed on (one of) my running goals, something worth noting: I’m taking my running gear with me while travelling!
Having the red line while packing my bag was definitely helpful here!
I’m traveling to a place that’s not inspiring to me for running. So I’d like to also take the chance to try and get a bit creative. So I immediately updated my graph after the derailment:
Budgeting with Beeminder
I find Dutch banking industry unfortunately slow with innovation. Unrelatedly, I was looking for an excuse to fiddle with AWS lambda and serverless software development… so I wrote a simple integration to track some of my spending.
I feed in a CSV export of my transactions. The integration then (1) categorizes transactions and (2) posts data points for the Beeminder goal relevant for that category.
Since it’s not autodata, it’s easy to “derail in past” if I slack on entering data.
What I want from this goal is to rest of 2022 and most of 2023 to be capped at a much smaller rate.
I also have a goal to make sure I keep entering data (which is hacked into the integration at the moment)
