Thought Experiment: OmniMinder

[dreev]

I like to call this idea “nannybot”. A hypothetical tool that would tell me minute by minute exactly what I should ideally be doing – work-wise, rest-wise, and anything-else-wise.

I’ve even sometimes called this the holy grail of Beeminder:

New Feature and Veritable Paradigm Shift: Arbitrary Deadlines

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Do you want a nannybot?

I took a straw poll in a recent daily beemail and the responses were pretty funny/fascinating, seeming to alternate between “oh hell no” and “dear god yes please”. So I thought I’d repeat it here and give people the chance to elaborate on their answers and talk about what the implications are for the long-term future of Beeminder. The background is that I’ve often described, like in “Between Lion and Ladybird, or Figuring Out What Works”, the holy grail or end state of Beeminder as like a nanny…