Personal Code

I'm home for the holidays, and this afternoon I heard a bit on Science Friday emanating from my parents' bedroom regarding research on people's successes with New Year's Resolutions. The gist of it was that people tend to have more success with these resolutions if they are realistic when they set them, and that it helps to tell friends about them, as a kind of reinforcement. I think Personal Code sounds like an ideal tool to help with that process, don't you?

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I'm working on a "self-help web app", and today I'd like to formally announce its existence (so far I've only told a few friends, and linked to it on Twitter).

The site is called Personal Code. The blurb on the home page describes it like this:

Develop your own set of rules, to help you make the changes you want in your everyday life. See the rules others have made for themselves. Adopt them as your own, if you want. Make it all as public or private as you want.

You can read more about the idea behind it here. I encourage everyone to sign up, give it a try, and get back to me if you have any feedback. As the site says, the whole thing is a bit of an experiment, and I'm going to add to it as new ideas come along, so your feedback means a lot to me.