The Power of Bright Lines, Or Beeminder's No-Free-Lunch Theorem

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http://doc.bmndr.co/brightlines

This is also reminiscent of a debate with Melanie about bright lines for weight loss. It seems like, scale weight being an imperfect proxy metric, that you'd always want leniency for crossing an arbitrary line. My claim is that there has to be a line in the sand that's treated as crucial despite being arbitrary. I think this can be simple and obvious if articulated the right way and confusing and subtle if not.

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• https://blog.beeminder.com/movingav
• https://blog.beeminder.com/catchup/
• Mindful Munching w/ Metrics #578

Verbata: beeminder philosophy, case studies, TANSTAAFL, first rule of beeminder,