Real deadlines and fake deadlines

To my knowledge, I've set three concrete goals for myself about how much effort I am going to put into this blog: In A promise to myself , I made an (implicit) promise to write a blog post every month, in perpetuity. In Writing begets writing , I explicitly promised that I would write at least ten thousand words between work and the blog in November 2025. Some time in January, I set a goal for…