With the new pledge caps, my favorite thing to do is making free things not free.

My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts, cake,
and other dietary undesirables. It’s tempting to take advantage of it just
because it’s there and it’s free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free
sodas at work? They are actually $5 now.


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Oh, that’s brilliant! =)

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Bethany Griswold btgriswold@gmail.com
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My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts,
cake, and other dietary undesirables. It’s tempting to take advantage of it
just because it’s there and it’s free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free
sodas at work? They are actually $5 now.


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Does your work offer the free soda, or is Beeminder shipping it to your
office? :slight_smile:

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Brent Yorgey byorgey@gmail.com wrote:

Oh, that’s brilliant! =)

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Bethany Griswold btgriswold@gmail.com
wrote:

My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts,
cake, and other dietary undesirables. It’s tempting to take advantage of it
just because it’s there and it’s free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free
sodas at work? They are actually $5 now.


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Haha, my work offers free soda. But beeminder benefits if I drink it!

On Monday, October 13, 2014 1:50:34 PM UTC-4, Sean Fellows wrote:

Does your work offer the free soda, or is Beeminder shipping it to your
office? :slight_smile:

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Brent Yorgey <byo...@gmail.com
<javascript:>> wrote:

Oh, that’s brilliant! =)

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<javascript:>> wrote:

My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts,
cake, and other dietary undesirables. It’s tempting to take advantage of it
just because it’s there and it’s free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free
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oh, that’s a really good idea.

I probably won’t adopt it wholesale, but I really like the idea of using a
low pledge cap to convert something from a “you should never derail”
mindset to a “it’s OK to derail it just imposes a cost” one. I have some
eating related goals that I’ve struggled to make work before that I’ll
probably try to use this for.

On 13 October 2014 19:35, Bethany Griswold btgriswold@gmail.com wrote:

My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts,
cake, and other dietary undesirables. It’s tempting to take advantage of it
just because it’s there and it’s free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free
sodas at work? They are actually $5 now.


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