So is it better to make a private commitment? What about posting an encrypted version of your resolutions, pre-committing to releasing the key in January 2011, so that you get punished by people if you fail, but you don’t prematurely reap the fuzzies of expected good deed for the day.
So is it better to make a private commitment? What about posting an encrypted version of your resolutions, pre-committing to releasing the key in January 2011, so that you get punished by people if you fail, but you don’t prematurely reap the fuzzies of expected good deed for the day.
That is probably ideal, and you also need a way to guarantee that people gain access to the decryption key next year.
Give all the keys to a “minder” who promises not to use them in the meantime.