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With the new pledge caps, my favorite thing to do is making free things not free.

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Bethany Griswold

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Oct 13, 2014, 1:35:11 PM10/13/14
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My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts, cake, and other dietary undesirables. It's tempting to take advantage of it just because it's there and it's free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free sodas at work? They are actually $5 now.

Brent Yorgey

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Oct 13, 2014, 1:47:46 PM10/13/14
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Oh, that's brilliant! =)

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Bethany Griswold <btgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts, cake, and other dietary undesirables. It's tempting to take advantage of it just because it's there and it's free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free sodas at work? They are actually $5 now.

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Sean Fellows

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Oct 13, 2014, 1:50:34 PM10/13/14
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Does your work offer the free soda, or is Beeminder shipping it to your office? :)

Bethany Griswold

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Oct 13, 2014, 2:22:25 PM10/13/14
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Haha, my work offers free soda. But beeminder benefits if I drink it!

David MacIver

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Oct 14, 2014, 6:09:29 AM10/14/14
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oh, that's a really good idea. 

I probably won't adopt it wholesale, but I really like the idea of using a low pledge cap to convert something from a "you should never derail" mindset to a "it's OK to derail it just imposes a cost" one. I have some eating related goals that I've struggled to make work before that I'll probably try to use this for.

On 13 October 2014 19:35, Bethany Griswold <btgri...@gmail.com> wrote:
My work offers free soda, along with fairly regular pizza, doughnuts, cake, and other dietary undesirables. It's tempting to take advantage of it just because it's there and it's free.

I like the pledge caps on Beeminder a lot. It means that all those free sodas at work? They are actually $5 now.

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