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🎊 New blog post: "Successful habits through smoothly ratcheting targets" It's reflection time of year for many people! I tried a new approach for habits last year, and it worked… suspiciously well? I'd like to share it with you: I hope it helps!

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Successful habits through smoothly ratcheting targets

Adopting new habits is hard! What a shame: New Year’s resolutions could represent such a bright spark of optimism. Instead, they’re a clichéd punchline on the futility of human will. Certainly, my...

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Andy Matuschak

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It probably could be! But imagine, like, inputting the daily “check!” on your phone, which is where it’s often natural to do it... :/ Maybe with Airtable? Would have to hook it to an accountability mechanism.

8:24 PM · Dec 28, 2017Twitter for iPhone

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Andy Matuschak

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Dec 28, 2017

(I also would probably want notifications for “yo! you must do the thing today!” rather than having to poll, but probably one can rig that up with some spreadsheet scripting?)

Aijaz Ansari #BlackLivesMatter

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I’ve been using the Streaks app for almost 2 years now. It’s been working very well for me. Especially with the APNS ‘nudges.’