Mistakes I made with chess openings

2026-01-23

Lately I have been thinking about chess openings. Keeping a simple log helped more than I expected. The notes below are mostly for my future self.

Lately I have been thinking about home networking. The second try took half the time of the first. Reading the manual first would have saved me an afternoon. The first attempts were clumsy, and that was fine. Nothing here is new, but it took me a while to see it. Most of the work is preparation; the visible part is quick.

I keep coming back to houseplants. I underestimated how much light matters. There is always one more thing to adjust. I borrowed most of the equipment at first. Small, repeatable steps turned out to matter more than any single trick. Mistakes were cheap, so I made many of them. Next time I want to try a different approach.