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HabitShaper My name is Adriano Ferrari, a Physics Ph.D. student, and the founder of HabitShaper.com.

In this blog, you'll find research on shaping habits, product updates, and random articles on self-improvement.

12 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Habitshaper is on Hold

For a short time, I’ve had to take Habitshaper.com offline. Contact me at adriano@habitshaper.com if you have any questions or comments. I hope to return, bigger and better!

18 December 2010 ~ 5 Comments

Time Goals, and Progress Bars

Time Goals, and Progress Bars

I’ve been working on adding proper time-based goal support, as well as big shiny progress bars. Here’s a sneak preview: Also, I wanted to thank all the users who’ve provided feedback, both online and with in-person tests. Keep it coming! -Adriano

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10 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Is Fear a Factor in Failing at Habits?

Pardon the alliteration, but is fear a factor in failing at habit forming? Personally, I would have to answer, f—yeah (oh sorry, had to do it). I am once again a vegetarian. I won’t go into the details as to why, but I sincerely doubt I’ll be eating meat for a long, long time. So [...]

08 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Why We Prefer Baby-Steps

So, here it is. Finally my first Habit Shaper blog post, and no less than a good 4-5 months after promising Adriano that I would do this on the regular. Well, as we like to say around here; better late than never! However, even better than later is right now. As in, do it. Now. [...]

15 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Preview of New “New Goal Wizard”

We are going for a different approach in the goal wizard. It is still partly “fill-in the blanks”, but instead of prefilling it with an example goal (do more pushups), we are using an adlibs approach:

14 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

A Quiet Launch of HabitShaper Web App

HabitShaper frequenters will notice some big changes that took place recently, without much fanfare. We have hit the switch, and the HabitShaper web app is now live! There is a great amount of work to be done, but we decided not to wait until it’s “finished” to release. The folk wisdom regarding software maturity is [...]