That’s an interesting site. May I make a suggestion?
Since a year or two ago when someone suggested on OB that tracking predictions would be good for your mental health, I’ve pondered how one could do that with software. The problem is that the things where prediction tracking delivers day-to-day bacon—such as whether I’ll like the vanilla or chocolate better, or which route to work will be faster—are also so minor that no one would bother writing them down and later inputting them to some website/program. The friction/overhead is just way too high.
But I’ve been looking at twitter, and it seems to me, that maybe if your cellphone is on and all you have to do is type up the prediction and % and hit enter, maybe that’s lightweight enough to make it a habit. What do you guys think?
Agreed. Tweet it, or email it, or SMS it, or enter it into the iPhone app, or use the method that we didn’t think of, but that some other hacker was able to put together using our API. Alternative input methods are high on our todo list.
That’s an interesting site. May I make a suggestion?
Since a year or two ago when someone suggested on OB that tracking predictions would be good for your mental health, I’ve pondered how one could do that with software. The problem is that the things where prediction tracking delivers day-to-day bacon—such as whether I’ll like the vanilla or chocolate better, or which route to work will be faster—are also so minor that no one would bother writing them down and later inputting them to some website/program. The friction/overhead is just way too high.
But I’ve been looking at twitter, and it seems to me, that maybe if your cellphone is on and all you have to do is type up the prediction and % and hit enter, maybe that’s lightweight enough to make it a habit. What do you guys think?
Agreed. Tweet it, or email it, or SMS it, or enter it into the iPhone app, or use the method that we didn’t think of, but that some other hacker was able to put together using our API. Alternative input methods are high on our todo list.