I have a nasty habit of delving into primary sources beyond the scope of a writing piece. I admit, there's an affinity for citations. I admire review papers with several pages of references, multiple entries for the same author over the span of their career.
But it's too time consuming, I learned this when I read a seminal paper in genetics by a statistician. It was either Sewall Wright or Fischer, and it had no citations, it was incredible.
While writing this I had the utmost urge to dig through my saved papers to find who it was, and salivated at the thought of starting from scratch and looking at an annotated bibliography, or better yet, collection of each of their papers. I secretly wish I had the wrong statistician, then I'd have a pretence for seeking out more.
I hope I can make a habit of reigning in scope creep.