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What To Mind: Picking a Metric | Beeminder Blog

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We use the word “goal” a lot but, ironically, we agree with Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) who argues that goals are for losers. [1] He points out that the most amazing people he knows tend not to just have goals that they achieve and then are done with, but systems for constantly improving. This is the biggest difference between Beeminder and StickK. StickK is about reaching a goal and the key question for setting up a goal in StickK is defining the success criteria. With Beeminder the key question for setting up a goal is defining a metric. [2] If you want to be a writer you could beemind time spent writing, or number of pages, or number of words, or stories finished, or articles published. How do you pick which one to actually beemind? E.g., time spent as measured by RescueTime or words added/deleted on Draft. The Beeminder frontpage lists all our autodata integrations. [3] We call it the QS First principle, and in fact I view Beeminder as foremost a Quantified Self tool. For example

What To Mind: Picking a Metric | Beeminder Blog « Beeminder home Beeminder Blog Press Roundup 5 New Feature: Pledge Caps What To Mind: Picking a Metric 2014-09-14 • by dreev We use the word “goal” a lot but, ironically, we agree with Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) who argues that goals are for losers . [1] He points out that the most amazing people he knows tend not to just have goals that they achieve and then are done with, but systems for constantly improving. This is the biggest difference between Beeminder and StickK . StickK is about reaching a goal and the key question for se

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