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When I was a kid, my mom always had the Coldplay album X&Y on in the car. It’s been quite awhile since I’ve listened to it, but I still know every word to every song and one lyric is the perfect title for today’s theme. As a community, we spend quite a bit of time…

I started writing this post a couple of days ago on a flight back to the US from Edinburgh by way of Geneva. Up until right before arriving in Edinburgh, we were supposed to be flying home from Malta via Paris instead.  A week before, I was at Pijana Wisnia in Krakow having a cherry…

I’ve tried to avoid really ranting about too much on the blog outside of grifters (and Bilt). I think a lot of us are pretty exhausted with grifting, since it seems like everything is a grift these days. But there’s a particularly egregious example in our hobby that is worth discussing today.  There’s no shortage…

It’s been a hair over a year since I started CC, so it felt like a nice time to write a year in review in September, because why not.  First off, if you’re still here a year later, thanks! In transparency, putting myself out there and doing what amounted to meta commentary on a hobby…

I’ve written a lot about how things change as you progress from shrimp towards whale. Your perception of risk changes. Your perception of scale changes. But it’s not just how you think that changes. It’s what you know, too.  Early on, a lot of us allocated all of our brain power to things like historical…