Human disclaimer - This post is written 100% by a human and there is zero LLM (ChatGPT, Claude etc, what they like to market as Artificial “Intelligence” but I disagree with that framing and will continue to refer to them as LLMs) contend or editing in it. It might contain bad grammar and spelling errors. This is not a statement against LLMs, which I believe can be useful, just a notice.

Blaugust disclaimer, this is part of Blaugust 2026 and I am going all-in aiming for the Rainbow Diamond Award. That means one post every day in August, 31 one them. I am not that good writer that I will be able to write something good every day. So if some of the posts feels a bit sloppy, at least know it’s 100% grass-fed human slop.

Which brings me to the topic of today. Exercising your brain through practice. There is a (infamous) book by called Outliers, the story of success which (to my understanding, I have actually not read that but only Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise) focuses a lot on the so called 10 000-hour rule.

The 10k rule says that if you spend 10k-hours on something, you will become very good at it, world level expert. The Peak-book clarifies this as, you need to spend the time meaningfully, they refer to it as deliberate practice, meaning you are guided and are able to level up your skill.

So now you might have a sense of where I am going. If not, then apologies, I have not spent 10k hours writing and I have definitely not gotten qualitative feedback on my writing so although I like to think I’m a above average writer (don’t we all?) I might not be.

I know, the rambling is making things worse not better. Sorry. Also I should not apologise so much. Anyways, let’s pretend you didn’t read that rambling, or this.

It is important to practice. And in today’s LLM assisted world where machines can produce infinite text which is passable at first glance, real expertise becomes more valuable, which means practice becomes more important.

Last Blaugust I managed to practice writing blogs, 31 times. And this is what I will do this year again.

It will be a mix of information security (my speciality), thoughts on LLMs (they are to some degree an Industrial Revolution for knowledge work, but like the Industrial Revolution it’s not all roses) and ramblings like this.

If this sounds interesting you can subscribe using RSS (if you don’t know what that is, ask someone or some-thing like a LLM). If it sounds interesting in a I’d-like-to-practice/participate then check the blaugust introductory post and then go sign-up.