Volume Septimo
Millenials are a 'sandwich generation' btw taking care of the 'Gen X'ers' and 'Boomers' who were heavily influenced by the '1st 1/2 of the 20th c. cohorts'^1 (more than they would like to admit--I heard how Boomer and Gen X Germans had difficulties relating to their parents b/c of the complacency in the infamy of the 1930's, which in turn got a lot of it's momentum from prejudices which got 'dangerously bubbly' by the mid 1800s onwards --Otto Bismarck's nationalism apparently needed to unify and shlock like social Darwinism) and 'the Zoomers' who they 'want to relate to' despite steady changes in the relatability of the 'bells and whistles' (consumer tech and media) which hold the attention spans of those more developmentally disimilar and vulnerable..
Not to mention the offspring of 'the millenials who made it' even w/auto and living space ownership struggles.
* who were really more like a '19th c. part III' group so much than most would prefer to admit not only if you factor in how different tech exposure and literacy demographics let different attitudes thrive and what that meant when it comes to say outcomes of 'Flynn effect' graphs but
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It's a struggle to not be carried away w/how your individual struggles aren't a representative microcosm of macro- level issues though I realize how it might be that same line of thought which may make for the dismissive phrase of 'victim politics' or 'victim studies'.
Will my login password for one of my jobs be changed promptly upon calling IT ?
Will certain documents needing info on past landlords be filled out ?
All before work at 12:30 ?
Opening — there are a variety of possible chess openings that have been extensively studied over the years. Your opening combination hugely depends on whether you’re white or black. A good chess player has a large number of chess openings memorized.
Strategy — evaluating positions and setting goals and long-term plans for future play
Tactics — a short-term sequence of moves that limit your opponent's room for maneuver, which often results in material gain. These opportunities are usually found in what is known as the middlegame (i.e., after the openings and before the endgame).
Endgame — the end of the game, when typically few pieces are left on the board. The line between middlegame and endgame is slightly blurred — however, typically pawns and the king become much more powerful in this stage of the game.
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Beyond learning a couple of basic openings, it was pointless learning positions/theory on openings in-depth
It was much more important to learn about endgames than openings. Studying endgames was not just helpful for the endgame itself but could also improve your play in the middlegame as well.
I was so blinded with the constant reference to tactics that I neglected the importance of getting better at strategy. I was convinced that the better I got at tactics, the more obvious the strategy would become — and thus was not important in getting to an Elo rating of 1100.
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This highlights the importance of having effective resources on an ultralearning project — I could have spent a long time studying all the various intricacies of the endgame, but this wouldn’t have been relevant for the level I was trying to achieve. Therefore, my study of the endgame only took about six hours.
Strategy
There’s no end of strategy advice online, and much it of it, I didn’t feel was relevant to achieve an Elo rating of 1100. After much research, I discovered this blog post on chess.com [ https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-strategy ]
which seemed to have a great overview of the key strategic ideas for beginners.
I found that tactics tend to present themselves when you’re in a good position strategically and less so when you’re in a poor position. Or in a succinct phrase: Tactics are the servant of strategy.
By far the most impactful exercise was playing against a computer without a queen (see here)[Drill: An Extra Queen - Chess.com].
I tried to spend at least 15 minutes after the end of each game looking through what I did wrong, noting down the key mistakes and thinking about how to avoid them in the future.
I must admit that during the span of me actively playing chess from late last December until this mid April, the resultant feelings wound up resembling this, more so..
https://joemorrison.medium.com/i-played-chess-every-day-for-a-year-32de0d38ad54
Gj: after experiencing substantial heat when you can unintimidatingly soak and absorb (pun not intended) the pivoting shift in weather around you in regards to wind changing and maybe incoming rain.
Wouldn't it be as difficult if not easier to make unfertilized bird eggs like the chicken eggs in grocery stores in a lab as it is thus far for lab grown meat ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Otu39FUqlxQ
It's not too much of a stretch, blameworthy stretch to look into the whole concept of post-scarcity societies if you're like me and don't have much conviction in the conventional notion of a 'Heavenly afterlife' but still realize that it means something.
`_` I wonder if such notions were covered on the show 'The good place' before wrapped up ?
Have gotten through spreadsheet stuff
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Laying off Pinterest for a while might do me some good
The privileges of public transportion and 'the funds for it'
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I learned how copying and pasting my pinterest pins for upload onto somewhere else isn't worthwhile when copying and pasting still means the sizes and zooming into the imagery not working as well as before, how some might be more like GIFs or videos etc..and I have a thankful under 170 in total number and am willing to take a break from that platform for a time.
