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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.

Forty-Nine: A Year In

Week Forty-nine! Missed a week! Or rather, I’ve already missed a Beejournal entry, but I’m alright with that, since I’ve been sliding further and further from my weekly deadline of Monday to all the way to Friday! By just waiting a few more days,...
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Forty-Eight: Intuitive Productivity

Week Forty-eight! Quite a bit of discussion this week, how exciting! I suppose I’ll try my best to respond to it all. How are you tracking all the courses? –@experimentallearner I wrote about this in entry #41 a little bit, but my approach t...
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Forty-Seven: Vitamins and Mornings

Week Forty-seven! I’d said I’m doing better this week, productivity-wise. I’m upgrading to a new workstation tomorrow, so that’s pretty exciting. In regards to Beeminder, I’ve been trying out small approaches to small new habits. For the past whi...
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Forty-Six: Weasel Thoughts

Week Forty-six! A little late this week, I had to reinstall my operating system (again) because both my sound and WiFi drivers suddenly and mysteriously vanished last week. The good news is that the problems I had with my NVIDIA card seemed to hav...
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Forty-Five: Forgetful Hierarchy

Week Forty-five! This has been a totally lackluster week for me, probably the laziest I’ve been since I’ve started this–but I don’t see that as a bad thing. I’ve noticed for awhile now that I’ve been having this tug-of-war on a daily basis between...
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Forty-Four: New Years Goals!

Week Forty-four! Happy New Year! Alright, one last update before the year ends. I’ve been at this experiment for around ten months now, and though I’m eager to give a complete summary of how things have gone in February, most people enjoy taking t...
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