{"items": [{"author": "Johanna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633301177242", "anchor": "fb-633301177242", "service": "fb", "text": "I really wish something like this were available for the iPhone -- haven't found anything quite like it yet (though I could have SWORN that someone I know was doing this a couple years ago with their iPhone...)", "timestamp": "1382974867"}, {"author": "Vivian", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633308382802", "anchor": "fb-633308382802", "service": "fb", "text": "\"The problem is, generally we only have access to memories of our emotion, which means if you're given the ice-water choice you'll repeatedly choose the option with more suffering.\"
Hm? I would rather choose the 90-seconds-in-cool-water one which is demonstrated to leave me with more-pleasant memories. I know I'm in the minority for this type of conscious preference. I find the \"before\" and \"after\" parts of an event usually have *more effect on my life* than the actual event, chiefly because they're going on for longer.", "timestamp": "1382978399"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633309804952", "anchor": "fb-633309804952", "service": "fb", "text": "@Isaac: \"I would rather choose the 90-seconds-in-cool-water one which is demonstrated to leave me with more-pleasant memories\"
Let's say you had the option to have surgery without anesthetic but with a long-term memory blocker that meant that after the surgery it was as if you'd be under general anesthesia the whole time: no memory. And let's say it's a bit cheaper and maybe safer than standard anesthesia. Do you take it?
Optimizing for more pleasant memories is good, and we should do some of it, but experience matters too.", "timestamp": "1382978715"}, {"author": "Jesse", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633322524462", "anchor": "fb-633322524462", "service": "fb", "text": "Oh wow, this looks really useful. Thanks for sharing, Jeff!", "timestamp": "1382980148"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1382981033577", "service": "gp", "text": "Cool. I'd suggest points rather than lines for the graph. I think the only thing the lines do is imply something that's either not meaningful or not true. [Edit: I mean for the raw data, not the moving average.]", "timestamp": 1382981033}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1382981489799", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n\u00a0You're right; points is better. \u00a0Fixed:\u00a0\nhttp://www.jefftk.com/happiness_graph", "timestamp": 1382981489}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1382982425812", "service": "gp", "text": "I'm curious if you've thought through possible negative implications of sharing this? I'm a big fan of \"publicy\" but am worried sometimes about unintended consequences, mainly on other people. Would you want someone to be able to find out that you were less happy when you spend time with them? (Maybe spending time with them is unavoidable for some reason.)\u00a0", "timestamp": 1382982425}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1382982461099", "service": "gp", "text": "(In the case of location sharing, my biggest worry is that I'd indirectly reveal the location of people who didn't want their location shared, perhaps for good reason.)", "timestamp": 1382982461}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1382983493354", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n\u00a0\"Would you want someone to be able to find out that you were less happy when you spend time with them?\"\n
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\nIf someone looks at my /tagtime.log and determines I'm systematically less happy when spending time with them, this seems similar to them asking me \"tell me honestly, are you unhappy to spend time with me\".", "timestamp": 1382983493}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1382984167759", "service": "gp", "text": "... but it removes the social difficulty with that question. (Many people who wouldn't be comfortable asking you would be comfortable asking your data, I think.)\n
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\nI dunno, that could be a better situation than the status quo, but I think it \nis\n different.", "timestamp": 1382984167}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1382985457084", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n\u00a0it is different, and I'm not sure enough yet of the social implications, but I'm willing to go ahead with it and if it explodes stop.", "timestamp": 1382985457}, {"author": "Kendra", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633338642162", "anchor": "fb-633338642162", "service": "fb", "text": "Johanna, I think I have seen a couple things that are kind of similar. Most recently Charge (apparently actually Life Charge?):
https://itunes.apple.com/.../life-charge.../id648567759
which is a sort of microjournaling thing that lets you assign an up or down-ness score to each entry, and then shows a display of each day's score for the week (or other time periods). I don't know if it has an internal timer, but the timing part is not hard to accomplish in general.", "timestamp": "1382989809"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633340578282", "anchor": "fb-633340578282", "service": "fb", "text": "@Kendra: \"the timing part is not hard to accomplish in general\"
It's a little subtle, but most timers aren't suitable. If your timer goes off every hour then you can start to adjust what you're doing so that on the hour you're closer to how you'd like to be. You want a timer that is equally likely to go off at any time.", "timestamp": "1382990737"}, {"author": "Johanna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633340658122", "anchor": "fb-633340658122", "service": "fb", "text": "huh, thanks! I agree a flat distribution during waking hours would be better, but regularly-spaced is still better than nothing.", "timestamp": "1382990812"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1382991015486", "service": "gp", "text": "makes sense!", "timestamp": 1382991015}, {"author": "Kendra", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633343971482", "anchor": "fb-633343971482", "service": "fb", "text": "While I absolutely agree as regards data collection, a habit that caused me to arrange my life to be happier once an hour doesn't seem so bad to me :) But I also don't think I have the regulation to make that happen, consciously or otherwise. It's an interesting question, though, and invites close examination of possible outcomes or goals of the endeavor.
On an iphone, I might accomplish less regular timing by manually resetting my timer to a random value each time I log-- the interface makes it easy to get a random number of minutes less than 60 (or a set number of hours plus a random number of minutes).", "timestamp": "1382992461"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=633377050192", "anchor": "fb-633377050192", "service": "fb", "text": "@Gretchen: yes. Or at least, optimize experiential and remembered happiness both instead of just remembered.", "timestamp": "1383005625"}, {"author": "Kendra", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=634131168932", "anchor": "fb-634131168932", "service": "fb", "text": "Random followup to the iPhone question: not clear whether the reminder feature supports random intervals and the icon is awful, but there's a mood tracker app on promo today (11/2): https://itunes.apple.com/.../imoodjournal.../id517952128...", "timestamp": "1383414534"}, {"author": "Johanna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/633279116452?comment_id=634132017232", "anchor": "fb-634132017232", "service": "fb", "text": "Kendra Thanks! I saw that in some lists when I went investigating mood trackers this week, but \"free\" is enough to make it worth checking out :)", "timestamp": "1383415099"}]}