1a. RE Public Goal-Setting--I've heard of a different motivational app that's fines people for falling short of their goal in my corner of the Internet-World. I talked to my husband about possibly doing that. We concluded that the extent to which I am motivated by money is abnormally low. (tho on the other hand I might feel anxious about causing the family to lose money, and just be miserable!) So, that's a strong "No for now!"
1b. Thinking of that app (beeminder) reminded me of this one fun page where this a favorite writer of mine talked about things that helped her to get through writing her first book in 2015. (book topic: it's on her journey conversion to Catholicism from atheism) It was like the first place I heard of pomodoros, iirc!
2. The "This is Us" quote was WONDERFUL. Thank you for sharing it!!
3. Oh!! There's a wonderful place in the novel "Please Look After Mom" where one of the daughters started making a list of things SHE wanted. (Context is that ...sometimes people's upbringing and ways of thinking + making decision hinders them from knowing what they would personally desire for themselves sans tons of "but what will people think?" calculations.) I've wanted to find that & show it to my sister.
Lots of food for thought on Beeminder's blog. I can see how linking that app to external data from your fitbit or whatever makes that tracking more valuable than self-reporting. And look at that list of competitors: https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors/
Thanks for the book reference! I'm trying to compile a short list of fiction / non-fiction books like I did for movies recently https://tania.substack.com/p/066, so this goes on my pile.
Lol, I didn't put in the link for 1b! I think that's because of my reflexive sense that, "Ughh, including links to things that are in some way monetized and/or is produced within a specific subculture(s) feels like SPAAAAMMMING." :-D
1a. RE Public Goal-Setting--I've heard of a different motivational app that's fines people for falling short of their goal in my corner of the Internet-World. I talked to my husband about possibly doing that. We concluded that the extent to which I am motivated by money is abnormally low. (tho on the other hand I might feel anxious about causing the family to lose money, and just be miserable!) So, that's a strong "No for now!"
1b. Thinking of that app (beeminder) reminded me of this one fun page where this a favorite writer of mine talked about things that helped her to get through writing her first book in 2015. (book topic: it's on her journey conversion to Catholicism from atheism) It was like the first place I heard of pomodoros, iirc!
2. The "This is Us" quote was WONDERFUL. Thank you for sharing it!!
3. Oh!! There's a wonderful place in the novel "Please Look After Mom" where one of the daughters started making a list of things SHE wanted. (Context is that ...sometimes people's upbringing and ways of thinking + making decision hinders them from knowing what they would personally desire for themselves sans tons of "but what will people think?" calculations.) I've wanted to find that & show it to my sister.
Lots of food for thought on Beeminder's blog. I can see how linking that app to external data from your fitbit or whatever makes that tracking more valuable than self-reporting. And look at that list of competitors: https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors/
Thanks for the book reference! I'm trying to compile a short list of fiction / non-fiction books like I did for movies recently https://tania.substack.com/p/066, so this goes on my pile.
Lol, I didn't put in the link for 1b! I think that's because of my reflexive sense that, "Ughh, including links to things that are in some way monetized and/or is produced within a specific subculture(s) feels like SPAAAAMMMING." :-D
It is: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/unequallyyoked/2015/05/the-people-who-made-my-book-exist-radio-readings.html
sweet list!