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Venkatesh Rao has been writing ribbonfarm.com since 2007. He's also the author of Tempo, a book on timing & decision-making.

Vgr consults executives to help stress-test their thinking and build systems for their organizations.

Most recently, he ran summerofprotocols.com

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Blogger at ribbonfarm.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

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I played a bit one summer and twisted my ankle and haven't gotten back into it yet. Used to be a serious and decent table tennis player through high school, so I found much of the fun was similar, except more energetic, somewhat slower, and with more satisfying "sweet spot" feel.

The pro sport is illegible to me.

I don't think I've ever enjoyed nerding out about that level of any sport tbf. When I enjoy sporting spectacles, it's usually for the actual action, not scoring mechanics. I really liked DFW's essay on Federer though I could tell I was missing most of the subtlety. Haven't really watched tennis since Becker era.

I think you’d actually love how pro tennis works compared to normal sports leagues.

Look up the ATP scoring system. It’s great.

Basically a federated model, diff tournaments worth diff amounts of points. 52-week rolling basis.