Comments on: Anti-Charity

By: steve_bergs2127

steve_bergs2127 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:58 +0000

Perhaps, Brad, you should expand the community to include areas outside of Boulder.

The prospect of donating $100 to ProLife.com sounds awful. Think about all the fund-raising mail that you'd get after sending that check!

By: kuldeep_kap

kuldeep_kap — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

Anti-charity is an awesome concept! Thanks for bringing this up into the light for us
I think there should be a start-up too, managing all this.

Good luck with your goals!

P.S. Gyminee, take the hint

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

Yeah – feel free to join. No need to limit this to Boulder.

By: Lura

Lura — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

I think this idea is awesome! I think I would have to commit dontaing to a "Palin in 2012" to really force me to lose the weight.

When I read that you went public with your war on weight, I thought about the book, "The Business Plan for the Body" by Jim Karas. One of the steps that he recommends for weight loss is to go public. It's written by an entrepenuer turned weight-loss guru.

By: Dave Rodger

Dave Rodger — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

Brad–

Have you read Super Crunchers? A great book, and in it the author describes a concept related to this. They call it "Commitment Contracts" and have formed a company to support it: http://www.stickK.com

An excerpt from their bio page
Our Mission

stickK promotes a healthier and happier living. We help people achieve their goals and objectives by enabling them to form Commitment Contracts.

Our Story

stickK was formed by combining personal experience and scholarly research. Our story began at Yale University a few years ago when Dean Karlan (Economics Professor at Yale and Co-Founder of stickK) came up with the idea of opening an online 'Commitment Store'.

He envisioned that people would come to the Commitment Store to sign contracts obliging them to achieve their personal goals such as losing weight or quitting smoking. Dean experimented this concept by making contracts himself (click here to read his personal weight loss story). Meanwhile, he also conducted and published research* on Commitment Contracts as a tool for helping people save money.

Good luck in your campaign

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

Great motivational concept. But, ProLIFE – wow… how awful. Why, that's almost as bad as being a full blown… gasp… conservative. Ugh.

By: micah105

micah105 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:57 +0000

Given that I have already donated a shit ton of money to the IRS, I am unsure of this anti-charity concept. But I will donate $100 to the American Nazi Party if I dont get below 250 in the same time frame as you. (1/31/09).

By: greg_cohn5428

greg_cohn5428 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:39:42 +0000

have you seen the snuzulus alarm clock? http://tinyurl.com/3e5zry

By: greg_cohn5428

greg_cohn5428 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:39:42 +0000

have you seen the snuzulus alarm clock? http://tinyurl.com/3e5zry

By: micah

micah — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:12:36 +0000