Would you be interested in a session on anti-akrasia techniques for entrepreneurs? As the co-founder of Beeminder the danger would be that it would come off as a Beeminder infomercial. On the other hand, OMG BEEMINDER IS SO GREAT. Especially for surviving down cycles in the rollercoaster that is startupland, as we can attest from dogfooding the living crap out of Beeminder. Like our one-user-visible-improvement-per-day goal, which has kept us moving inexorably forward for 629 days now.
Here are 3 things that may convince you that this may be a good idea:
Would you be interested in a session on anti-akrasia techniques for entrepreneurs? As the co-founder of Beeminder the danger would be that it would come off as a Beeminder infomercial. On the other hand, OMG BEEMINDER IS SO GREAT. Especially for surviving down cycles in the rollercoaster that is startupland, as we can attest from dogfooding the living crap out of Beeminder. Like our one-user-visible-improvement-per-day goal, which has kept us moving inexorably forward for 629 days now.
Here are 3 things that may convince you that this may be a good idea:
Katja Grace’s “On the Goodness of Beeminder”: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/08/on-the-goodness-of-beeminder.html
Robert Wiblin on beeminding your way to greatness: http://robertwiblin.com/2012/04/16/beeminding-your-way-to-greatness/
My own manifesto on “How to Do What You Want”: http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia and sequel on “Flexible Self-Control”: http://blog.beeminder.com/flexbind
(I just pitched that to the organizers and thought I’d repeat it here to gauge interest.)
There may be some overlap with the Overcoming Procrastination session, but this could be much more general.
I think dreeves background at Yahoo and success in founding Beeminder makes him well-placed to talk about getting things done.
Thanks so much, Robert!
And breaking news: I’m now part of the program!
(I’m really excited about this!)