Breakthrough for me: automation isn't the point. Manual logging isn't that hard. It's integration into work habits hat is hard.
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what kind of integration? Just that you do the logging? Or that it affects work decisions in meaningful ways?
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longer conversation. Basically Tempo theory operationalized: fg/bg components.
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cool :-) will await the blog post/prototype. Lmk if you want beta testers
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rudiments already there on my github, but in matlab.
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so it's google spreadsheets -> xlsx download -> mathlab analysis? Sounds like a Saas app waiting to happen :)
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yup. Matlab, not mathlab, which is another corner of sci-comp altogether.
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what no life logging does well (including my experiments) is transition from initial insights to sleeping and prompting
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it becomes about maintenance not establishment of the habit. See also extinction burst.
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yeah, totally. I was logging for a month before I tried any analysis. By then, logging itself had become a useful habit
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you don't want to create addiction to isolated insight. You want scaffolding for future unknown-unknown troubleshooting


