An engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
This post concludes the November installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Friday’s discussion started the weekend off with a contentious league match and the different assumptions thatRead More
Yesterday, we opened November’s Tennis Glow-Up discussion of perspective by examining a rather unpleasant league match. Disputed line calls were the immediate source of conflict, but theRead More
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This weekend marks the start of the November installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Throughout 2026, we have been examining different aspects of our tennis lives andRead More
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This post concludes the October installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Friday introduced patience as continued purposeful action without requiring immediate evidence that the work is payingRead More
Yesterday’s post introduced patience as something considerably more active than waiting. We can continue practicing, training, and making deliberate choices while accepting that the benefitsRead More
This post opens the October installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Throughout 2026, we have been dedicating the first full weekend of each month to intentional improvementRead More
Yesterday’s post ended with a problem. Experience helps tennis players develop patterns and defaults that make many decisions easier, but no default works all theRead More
Yesterday’s post opened our September “Glow-Up” series discussion of decision-making by examining the pitfalls of results-oriented thinking. Winning a point does not necessarily mean we made a goodRead More
This post opens the September installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Throughout 2026, we have been dedicating the first full weekend of each month toward intentional improvementRead More
This post concludes the August installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Friday framed consistency as the ability to reduce unnecessary variation rather than eliminate bad days. Yesterday’sRead More
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