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. For more information on the theory behind this idea, please check out the following links where I have written extensively about this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Eighteen: SMART Systems
Posted: June 28, 2020Week Eighteen! I wrote a post on productivity already this week, so I feel as though this is gonna be a little short. /collection is going to be deleted, as I’m not really using it at all. I thought it’d be an interesting idea to try to collect interesting things as Beeminder data points, but...
Seventeen: Sharpening vs. Writing
Posted: June 20, 2020Week Seventeen! It’s been a rather quiet week for me. I’ve mostly been doing team-based assignments learning and studying the React library and the large amount of novel concepts it brings to the table. Having my nose to the grindstone has let me had time to meditate on the difference between pla...
Sixteen: Now is Now
Posted: June 12, 2020Week Sixteen! This was a pretty big week for me. I built my first website from scratch, a web portfolio for myself. It’s still a bit of a prototype–I gave myself only 3 weeks to complete it. Of course, Beeminder is on the homepage. I’m sort of using my system embeds as a means of a “Now” page, a...
Fifteen: Hurt and Healing
Posted: June 5, 2020Week Fifteen! This has been an difficult week, full of pain and hurt–and attempts at healing. In my non-coding time I’ve been figuring out ways to best help the BIPOC community, I helped make a small, local resource list, specifically on trying to find some sort of semblance of healing or peace. ...
Fourteen: A Pivot
Posted: June 1, 2020Week Fourteen! Everything has been going as idealistically good as it possibly can be. I think one of the (perhaps many) reasons why I’ve been successful on Beeminder is because of the Hawthorne Effect, which states that: individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awarene...
Thirteen: The Meta System
Posted: May 22, 2020Week Thirteen! I couldn’t tell you exactly what the cause is, but for the past few days, things have sort of clicked with me. This graph is really important to me. I’ve been finding myself motivated by grid-based progress graphs recently, and GitHub’s is specifically fantastic. Having to cons...