Programmable Self

Using software for personal change

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Posture hacking.

Lumo Lift tracks posture in real time and gently vibrates when you need to straighten up! It's fashionable, easy to wear, tracks steps, calories & more.

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I wonder how down votes work on yourself.

A classic theory of behavioural psychology predicts that punishment should improve behaviour. But the first study of onl…

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Facebook buys Moves exercise diary app, service will live on

Facebook just bought itself an exercise app. It has snapped up Moves, a popular exercise app and pedometer. The app will live on, according to a blog post from Moves maker ProtoGeo Oy, a Finish com...

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RunKeeper launches Breeze

RunKeeper has just launched a competitor to Moves....

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Endeavour Partners has written a white paper on wearables and behavior change... apparently some new survey data released with the whitepaper

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I use it for iPhone and it really works...

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Save money by resisting the Urge to Splurge. Urge is the Power of Small Change.

This is an iphone app (link to app store) that lets you transfer between your accounts when you resist spending urges programmatically. 

Basically you can say "I am not going to get starbucks today" and then transfer that money instead to a savings account or your "cruise savings fund".

Clever.

-FT

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The device and sensor industry is getting hotter!!

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According to themselves:

Everest is an iPhone app that helps you live your dreams and achieve personal goals. 

It is a pretty interesting goal setting app that I will be trying! They also have a blog where they promote how their users have used the app to reach goals... itself a pretty cool motivational technique.

Thanks to John Loehrer for turning me on to this!!

-FT

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This is a decent summary of the findings and implications 

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Obviously I am most interested to see the long term weight lose, which is really the hardest to do....

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Sometimes, low-tech commitment contracts work best. 

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Magic the Gathering creator Richard Garfield discusses game balance.

Not sure what the lesson is here for personal change, except to say that there is one.

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Perhaps we should more often imitate our avatars.

Had not thought of that one...

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Habit Hacking app Lift launches

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Gympact has launched on RunKeeper.

Here is more press they earned on the launch.