Proxy Metrics

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### Desiderata
- [x] Have someone read a draft
- [ ] Keywords/tags
- [x] Title image
- [ ] Link preview excerpt
- [x] Publish at https://blog.beeminder.com/proxymetrics on 2025-01-29
- [x] Blog blurbs
- [x] Waggledance
- [x] Tweet at https://x.com/bmndr/status/1885604982956974588 on 2025-02-01
- [ ] Tip of the day

Seed from the old outside-the-box post:

http://doc.bmndr.co/proxymetrics

Candidate for next in the Melzaminder series

Cognata

• Why Weigh? #580
• https://blog.beeminder.com/box (see Proxy Beeminding section)
• The Power of Bright Lines, Or Beeminder's No-Free-Lunch Theorem #100
• Withings Weigh-in Time as Proxy for Wake-up Time (by Nick Head) #60 (this one nabbed the "proxy" slug)
• Gauges and Dials #581
• https://blog.beeminder.com/melzaminder

Verbata: gauges and dials, melzaminder,

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