Having spent this year working on a book I can confirm all but step 10
James O'Neill
@james-oneill.bsky.social
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Exasperated curmudgeon Ex Scuba instructor, Ex Formula team employee, Ex Microsoftie. Still doing Photography with Pentax and coding with PowerShell. Occasional drone pilot, but more prone to droning on.
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 2 with white hat stands behind Person 1 who is seated at desk with laptop] PERSON 1: I’m ranked 7,145,000th globally on this chess platform. It’s hard to be ranked that low in *any* activity. (2) PERSON 1: Few pastimes even *have* 7 million rated players. Until the internet, it wasn’t really possible. You could be this bad, but only unofficially. (3) PERSON 1: So in a sense, I’m worse at chess than anyone was at *anything* for most of human history. PERSON 2: Why are you still doing it? (4) PERSON 1: Well, no human has ever had this many friends to play with. PERSON 2: That person is calling you some very obscene names. PERSON 1: Our friendship is complicated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibttiz6nmqpook66kcfxofvchkxnjfuc3n5gthpsjnj6wyhmnz27q)
![Comic. [Two houses next to each other. Piping runs from one underground, connecting it to the other.] [caption] A covertly-installed *Neighbor-Source Heat Pump* takes advantage of the fact that your neighbor keeps their house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihme75kw3ibwada5jzdvby6ctmeiuwpvwxkwcuww4bag43agicxz4)
