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So you blogged about it and posted it on a site that votes content

I respect him for that. He's trying to express his beliefs to people he thinks might benefit from it. That's a noble thing to do.

Hell, that's half of why I'm a user on this site. I don't think that time spent encouraging people not to waste so much time online is necessarily a bad thing.

Maybe he's trying to make a commitment he will be held to.

Like mr. "I can write stackoverflow in a weekend"?

Also, haven't there been a dozen articles posted here about how publicly stating your intent hinders your ability to achieve it? It was in reference to startups, but it's the same psychology at work I imagine.

Maybe saying you're going to do something is different from saying you're not going to do something. One is easier to verify than the other.

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