@bakerhadley I think this is a first-rate piece of work. The analogy you used in the third paragraph was really clever. It was both easy to grasp and somehow also something that kind of needed to be read twice, which only served to really drive the point home. I don't think most people think of resolutions as potentially harmful. And for some people I imagine they aren't. But for some people its just another way for them to let themselves down and feel like they've failed, something that can take an almost imperceptible yet very real toll. Drawing people's attention to things the culture leads us to do almost automatically is a very useful thing to be doing. A very worthwhile contribution.