### Desiderata
- [ ] Have someone read a draft
- [ ] Keywords/tags
- [ ] Title image
- [ ] Link preview excerpt
- [ ] Publish
- [ ] Blog blurbs
- [ ] Waggledance
- [ ] Tweet
- [ ] Tip of the day
- [ ] Anki the URL?
We can sanctify the white meat <--> nuts swap; just document it in the comments of http://blog.bmndr.co/allitimentation and point everyone to the change.
Can either be as a rule change for both of us or to individualize the definition of salubriety if we're ok deviating from max coordination.
Same with a milk-in-coffee exemption.
(Again, has to be blessed and sanctified and common-knowledged first, as part of the work to keep entropy from gradually destroying the system)
Now thinking about a blog post like "systems need anti-entropy measures" like how the answer to "couldn't you make your own Beeminder with a spreadsheet and a hard-assed friend?" is yes, sure, for like a month before it all falls apart. Three months if you're really emphatic and get the friend to solemnly promise they'll keep riding your ass indefinitely.
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Could probably make a whole collection of well-meant systems that petered out. Beeminder is a key ingredient to prevent that.
We've now blogged about how and why DIY Beeminders don't tend to work. Next is generalizing that to systems in general requiring ongoing work to prevent them from decaying and petering out (and how Beeminder itself is a helpful anti-entropy tool).
dreeves
commented
9 months ago
Some of this is now said in https://blog.beeminder.com/diy
From discussion with Bee:
We can sanctify the white meat <--> nuts swap; just document it in the comments of http://blog.bmndr.co/allitimentation and point everyone to the change.
Can either be as a rule change for both of us or to individualize the definition of salubriety if we're ok deviating from max coordination.
Same with a milk-in-coffee exemption.
(Again, has to be blessed and sanctified and common-knowledged first, as part of the work to keep entropy from gradually destroying the system)
Now thinking about a blog post like "systems need anti-entropy measures" like how the answer to "couldn't you make your own Beeminder with a spreadsheet and a hard-assed friend?" is yes, sure, for like a month before it all falls apart. Three months if you're really emphatic and get the friend to solemnly promise they'll keep riding your ass indefinitely.
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Could probably make a whole collection of well-meant systems that petered out. Beeminder is a key ingredient to prevent that.
We've now blogged about how and why DIY Beeminders don't tend to work. Next is generalizing that to systems in general requiring ongoing work to prevent them from decaying and petering out (and how Beeminder itself is a helpful anti-entropy tool).
Cognata
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Verbata: systems vs goals, allitimentation, keeping systems from decaying,