Announcing One’s Plans
Seems like I blew it yesterday when I announced my intentions to learn the Unity Application Block according to "Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them", which states
Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.
So although my intention was to create some artificial mandates through accountability, the stats seem to say otherwise. You'll just have to keep me honest. 
I have an inkling that if I decided to announce that I was going to gain 20lbs, I wouldn't have a problem. 
Completely unrelated: I also have on my radar some summer reading: Clockwork Orange and The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights in preperation for the 29th Annual Steinbeck Festival.