Using My Own Seinfeldian Chains
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Since getting back from our trips cycling in France and then walking in Scotland I’ve been using the Chain to pick up a few daily habits.
Here are my current chains.
The annoying but essential: Floss and Electric Brush Every Day
The educational: Read Agile Web Development with Rails
The mind numbing: Read An Essay About Software
And the somewhat more challenging: Run
This is what we call, in the software business, Eating Your Own Dogfood and it has been enlightening and good for me too.
Tonight Monica and I are going to sit down and design the next version of the chain so I can get it released in time for the end of September when the chain as we know it will fall off the end of the world.
We’ve built up a fairly large list of feature requests and some of those will make it in. I want to maintain the simplicity and no-registration required nature of the chain though so we’ll keep it as streamlined as possible.
More tomorrow on this topic and thanks for all the interest. I’m really keen to hear some stories from people that are using the chain everyday to build new habits or reinforce existing good habits. Send me a link to your read only chain and let me know if you mind me publishing your story here.
Thanks,
-Tim
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September 20th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
I have two chains so far. One is for exercise. I’ve pledged to do at least a half hour of sustained exercise every day for the next year, and so far I’ve made good on it, thanks to the chain. The other is for correspondence. I’m the world’s worst letter-writer, which makes me a less-than-loyal friend. I’ve started another chain to encourage me to write at least a short letter every day. I’m curious to see how that works out.