You’re welcome! Glad you’re finding it useful. Mind if we excerpt this high praise as a testimonial?
Also that’s really an interesting insight about the difference between Beeminding things you want to do vs things you know you should. I’ve noticed that too, for me reading falls under the former, and pretty much everything else under the latter. With reading it is like a matter of inertia—once I start reading I’m happy to keep doing it, but it is hard to start. But losing weight I never want to do, I only ever want to have done it.
Leaving aside my low opinion of testimonials as evidence for choosing a product or service (I know they work and they are thus an effective marketing tool, but I don’t trust them for reasons that should be obvious to LessWrongers), I think it is too early for me to unreservedly recommend Beeminder to the “public at large”.
My experience with it is still in a bit of a honeymoon period emotionally (I get excited about new things—don’t we all!) so I want to be sure I am not just getting carried away.
I recommend that you solicit my permission for a testimonial in a month or so. If I am still using Beeminder (as seems likely at this time) then I am sure I will be happy to oblige.
Hey Danny and Bethany—you forgot to ask me again about using my earlier praise as a testimonial!
To cut short any suspense—you may use my previous statement.
My perspective has now developed a little (I am not sure quite how I let music practice start to slip, given I get so much out of it), but I stand by everything I previously said.
I have in fact recommended Beeminder to a few other people who I thought would “get it” and make good use of it.
Two months now without running off the road on any of my counters—though getting to bed on time has been close to the wire lately...
You’re welcome! Glad you’re finding it useful. Mind if we excerpt this high praise as a testimonial?
Also that’s really an interesting insight about the difference between Beeminding things you want to do vs things you know you should. I’ve noticed that too, for me reading falls under the former, and pretty much everything else under the latter. With reading it is like a matter of inertia—once I start reading I’m happy to keep doing it, but it is hard to start. But losing weight I never want to do, I only ever want to have done it.
Leaving aside my low opinion of testimonials as evidence for choosing a product or service (I know they work and they are thus an effective marketing tool, but I don’t trust them for reasons that should be obvious to LessWrongers), I think it is too early for me to unreservedly recommend Beeminder to the “public at large”.
My experience with it is still in a bit of a honeymoon period emotionally (I get excited about new things—don’t we all!) so I want to be sure I am not just getting carried away.
I recommend that you solicit my permission for a testimonial in a month or so. If I am still using Beeminder (as seems likely at this time) then I am sure I will be happy to oblige.
Love it. Alarm set for a month (or so).
And, yes, testimonials are, well, cheap talk. But our testimonials aren’t like that, baby, I swear it… http://beeminder.com/testimonials
Hey Danny and Bethany—you forgot to ask me again about using my earlier praise as a testimonial!
To cut short any suspense—you may use my previous statement.
My perspective has now developed a little (I am not sure quite how I let music practice start to slip, given I get so much out of it), but I stand by everything I previously said.
I have in fact recommended Beeminder to a few other people who I thought would “get it” and make good use of it.
Two months now without running off the road on any of my counters—though getting to bed on time has been close to the wire lately...