I help people solve problems with vendors and contracts pre-court. Most of my time is spent telling stories.
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I'm more interested in this part of the story: "Now, he runs an events company in the United Kingdom[,] guiding other people over hot coals and the occasional bed of broken glass as part of corporate team-building exercises and charity events." smithsonianmag.com/science-n…
"[U]nless [we] can agree on the value of the firm’s service [...] and set a fixed price, then law firms will continue to use hours as a proxy for value [...] Using billable hours as a proxy for client value is stupid." lawyerist.com/news-articles/…
Like the Margaret Thatcher lady quote: "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
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"Intellectually honest" is one of the highest possible compliments nowadays. It implies the ability to think well, the work ethic to have thought enough about something before spouting off, and the integrity to admit the counterviews' strengths and your own view's weaknesses.
Hands down the most intellectually honest journalist on the Australian situation b/w publishers and tech platforms has been @CaseyNewton. Been a longtime reader and will now pay for his independent work.
Obsessed with low-value contract disputes since 2009.
Hard disagree. The majority of Americans I've met don't think clearly enough to issue anything other than conclusions in a debate: they can tell you what they (think they) think, but not why--coherently, by premise; and they have no chance of persuading anyone to their view. 1/2
“Just imagine if only the surgeon were allowed to diagnose your sore throat.” legaltechmonitor.com/2020/09…
There are many bad things that have happened in US private prisons. So, there is no doubt a problem. But I don't know if privatization is necessarily the cause of those problems, or whether making those prisons public will solve the problems; indeed, I doubt both suppositions.
For example, this incident occurred at a non-private prison: loweringthebar.net/2020/10/j…
This was excellent in many ways. One example: the difference between "story" and "narrative," the idea that both are a kind of objectivity, and the essentiality of also having the narrative kind rather than only the story kind.
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As feedback, complaints are often useful for the complainee. But a complaint is only useful to the complainer if it helps the complainer achieve some objective beyond the complaint itself, which is why complaining for the *purpose* of complaining is not useful for the complainer.
It's sad how incredible this is.
Those two Utah governor candidates who just made that pro-civility ad (xitter.cf/PetersonUtah/status/13…) also recently had a debate. If you want to listen to what a debate with a higher level of civility would actually look like, here you go:
c-span.org/video/?475666-1/u…
Whatever the facts are in a contract dispute...that's what should ultimately decide what happens. Not resource advantages. Not high-paid teams of lawyers. Not even the stakes of the case. No non-meritorious factor should dictate the outcome. Thus, Veeto. veeto.co/blog/
"Malone-Oliver has defended Haymon’s imprisonment as a path to self-improvement[.]" BS. mississippitoday.org/2020/07…