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Ironically, the completionist in me would be stressed out knowing there's new content waiting for me everyday. I'd feel compelled to listen to the day's new audio track before it has a chance to pile up over a week, which makes for good business, but would personally stress me out and ruin the whole point of Calm and similar mindfulness services. I'm probably just a weirdo edge case, though :]

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You're definitely not a weirdo edge case, I think we all feel something like that around email, facebook notifications etc, and it's something we very consciously want to avoid in our product.

Each Daily Calm session is available for that day only, so you either listen to it or you don't. If you do come back to the app every day there's something fresh for you if that's what you'd like (you can of course to a regular session too). If you don't use the app on any particular day, no big deal, there's no backlog of content for you to stress about catching up with!

   > Each Daily Calm session is available for that day only,
   > so you either listen to it or you don't.

I'm really not in the target audience at all, but doesn't that make the situation described by the parent commenter _worse_?

"Agh! Better listen quick or it's gone forever!"

At least there's no worry about the ever-increasing number (and increasing time-investment) of missed episodes to catch up on.

I say this as the guy who wakes up in the morning with 500-800 overnight missed tweets, and then patiently reads through them.

That sounds awful.

It's a time-consuming but relatively harmless foible.

I guess it's partly FOMO, partly habit, and partly the slightly positive aspect of following a routine. There are the odd days when I just skip them all, but it does leave me slightly irked.

All in all, it's not the worst thing in the world, although I wouldn't be upset to grow out of the habit.

I used to do that; then I realised the way I was using Twitter wasn't scalable, stopped, and realised Twitter wasn't for me.

I still have it, but mostly just use it to contact customer service departments - seems to be the most painless way these days.

I quite agree. I like the repetitive edge of Headspace. Although I have to say that I don't feel compelled to do all of it. I know it's not a test and if I push myself to do things then it lessens the benefit.

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