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Journal.Kim —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 journal.kim/ as inspiration, I’ve decided to migrate my blog from WordPress to Jekyll and upload the source code to my GitHub repository here, with the name n...
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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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