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Not every meaningless achievement needs a retrospective blog post. The article starts out:

"For some background: I played chess briefly with my friends in high school,"

No one knows who you are or cares. What kind of person has the time to read that?

Not every meaningless achievement with an unnecessary retrospective blog post needs a derisive comment about its existence, and yet here we are. Some people are interested in the content, you’re obviously not, just ignore it.

I am here for your grievance about pointless backstory, but I think OP got to the point soon enough.

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