How Better Judgement Leads to Better Decisions in Tennis
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
An engineer overthinks tennis in a daily journal.
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
1 responseYesterday’s post established a baseline understanding of consistency. The best tennis players are not those who somehow avoid bad days. Rather, they are the onesRead More
This post opens the August installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Throughout 2026, we have been dedicating the first full weekend of every month to intentional improvementRead More
1 responseThis post concludes the July installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Friday introduced confidence as trust in one’s ability to respond well rather than certainty about results.Read More
This post is the second entry in the July installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Yesterday’s discussion argued that confidence should not be grounded in results becauseRead More
This post opens the July installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Throughout 2026, we are dedicating the first full weekend of every month to how we canRead More
This post concludes the June installment of the Tennis Glow-Up series. Friday introduced connection as one of the most important outcomes of tennis participation. Yesterday’s discussion expandedRead More