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A blundercheck is a quick mental list to consider before making a move in chess.

It’s the make or break between noobs and strong amateurs.

Avoiding failure is 80% of chess mastery. The other 20% is a messy combo of luck, memorization, and obsessive-competitive drive.

This newsletter is a wide-ranging search for similar ideas.

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Subscribers can expect pieces about work, management theory, safety, health, family, risk, chess, and more. I post about once a week, depending on the chaos level of my main gig (managing the Summer of Protocols research program).

You can find more good writing at Protocolized, of which I’m an editor.

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