Coaching tennis is weird. It's an individual sport, but team tennis is the act of playing a "position" against someone ostensibly of similar ability levels to see which teams wins head-to-head. Much of this exercise is really figuring out how to position kids -- singles & doubles teams -- into...

So it's weird that I went to Wyoming for a summer to coach for a 5-week tennis season. But that's precisely what I did. My logic was mostly that I needed a change of scenery. I thought -- mistakenly -- that going back to a place that'd treated me well...

It's weird how things are cyclical. In the past few years, I've just opted not to do a lot of internet writing. In the days of blogging, it's what really helped me get my ideas out and helped me refine them too. Perhaps the signal v noise ratio is too...

It's like any kind of start-up, you could make money quickly but it wouldn't be immediate and you'd have to leverage your labor before anyone would pay out. Obviously, day labor is easier provided someone needs the work you do and you meet them that day and are connected with...

You'd think that the most rewarding part of coaching high school is winning. I mean, we win to play the game right? But not for me.

Tennis is an unusual sport because the high school & college format takes a sport that's wholly individual (even in doubles, it's just two...

In 1997, I was in my senior year of high school. I was the most tenured member of the high school tennis team, which itself was a bit of a surprise. For context, I've played tennis since I was 9 and started getting lessons at 11. This was entirely self-directed,...

This site and the final demise of livejournal made me reflect on all the superfluous stories that make up our lives. Like, I don't know that every one of them needs to be documented or if people should just have their letters burned when they die. But I just think...

I need to read a book about the shift from the majority of people in the US meeting partners online versus through real life/social connections/in-person. I hadn't thought about how distorting it is to become accustomed to all your interactions with dating coming via preferential algorithms that don't really know...

Coaching high school tennis is fun, I enjoy seeing the growth in kids over the three month season. Because I have a day job that's not in education, I find the entrenched ideas that folks inhabit in that world really difficult to deal with. Naturally, I come with ideas on...

This site has been great even if I'm not habitually writing, having a place like Tumblr once was for me, where I can just write for the sake of writing has been nice. Last year, I thought I might switch jobs and so I lazily redirected my personal site to...