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Beejournal —A Metasystem Experiment

It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.
—Bojack Horseman



Hi, I'm Brennan! I created this website to provide weekly updates regarding my goals (systems) that I currently have on a website called Beeminder as a way to keep myself accountable, as well as a place for general draft writing.

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Discover how I transformed my life through 24 months of data tracking. 160k+ words written, 2.5M steps walked, 700+ commits, and more—all documented with lessons you can apply.

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Twelve: Self-Permission

Week Twelve! Or rather, thirteen? I apologize for the confusing chronology, that’s a self-embedded punishment of slacking off. I’ve realized I have difficulty with self-permission. The paradox of choice makes it nearly impossible to really unders...
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Eleven: Notebook de Casa

Week Eleven! Man, I’ve been busy this week. Not entirely related to Beeminder, but using beejournal.netlify.app as inspiration, I’ve decided to migrate my blog from WordPress to Jekyll and upload the source code to my GitHub repository here, with ...
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Ten: Distillery

Alright, time to do some catch-up work. Quarantine has definitely been a little stir-crazy for me, I shaved my head, grew out a beard for the first time, and had my birthday. Of course though, I had no party. After a lot of navel-gazing, I’ve com...
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Nine: Setbacks

Week Nine! Okay, it’s actually more like Week Eleven, because it’s been several weeks since my last update. Womp womp. It’s been a long time since I’ve updated mostly due to usual akrasia. My systems have largely been uneventful, but that’s no ex...
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Eight: Schedule Tasks

Week Eight! Which is more accurate than my last entry, which was rather late. I feel as though double-posting this week would be a good way to make up for that. The longer I use Beeminder regularly, the more the phrase better late than never rings...
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Seven: The New Normal

Week Seven! Well, sort of at least. I have been doing a lot of abstract, head-in-the-clouds kind of thinking the past two weeks, and as a consequence I’ve sort of neglected talking about Beeminder or my systems. I feel as though this is because t...
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