Moments of Distraction

Moments of Distraction

The title was supposed to be “Moments of Thought Distraction” but I can’t do strikethrough in the title I guess. Lately, I’ve been noticing myself falling into two bad habits with my phone. The first is pulling out my phone when I have just a...
The Unique Content Problem

The Unique Content Problem

I spoke last post about reasons I don’t post as much as I used to. One reason I gave was lack of unique content. What does that mean exactly? In 2024 there are specialized experts giving highly qualified opinions on almost everything. Don’t get me wrong,...
Voice-to-Post

Voice-to-Post

This post is a SplittingTens first. For the last year (or two (six)) I have not been posting frequently. Part of that is simply due to my lack of unique content, which is a post unto itself. But another part of that is that writing a blog post takes time. A post that...
A Defeating Defeat

A Defeating Defeat

This post is about about responding to failure. Last night was round 3 of the NPCC August chess tournament. Round 1 – I played a 16 year old and lost a close game which I was totally fine with. Round 2 – I played a 7 year old and beat him because he was...