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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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The Beeminder Experiment: A Complete Guide

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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Eighteen: SMART Systems

Week 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 collec...
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Seventeen: Sharpening vs. Writing

Week 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 ...
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Sixteen: Now is Now

Week 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 us...
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Fifteen: Hurt and Healing

Week 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...
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Fourteen: A Pivot

Week 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 asp...
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Thirteen: The Meta System

Week 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 G...
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