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Originalism outside of the law

February 25, 2010 · 0 comments

What would Supreme Court originalism look like in other disciplines? This delightful little post is sort of an originalist approach to geography.

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Elsewhere: personal financial statements

December 6, 2009 · 0 comments

Posted a quick reply about personal financial statements to one of Fred Wilson’s thoughts about the importance of saving and investing.

As I think about it now, I suppose I should edit to make that point clearer. But it’s there even without the keywords. I’ll explore this framework further on Simplifying Complexity if there’s interest: are you interested?

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Autism made me a single-issue voter

17 August 2009

When discussing the recent presidential campaign with two professors I know, one asked me who was more “favorable” when it came to autism. He assumed that I would probably support the Democrats because of their association with support of civil rights (IDEA and the ADA are civil rights statutes at their heart).
As I continued to [...]

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Why do legal opinions matter?

12 August 2009

In a recent post referring to Ted Wang’s “simple series A” proposal, I noted that I would separately discuss legal opinions.
Non-lawyers, and lawyers new to transactional practice, have probably never really heard of a legal opinion or what it does. Briefly, the legal opinion letter is a carefully prepared document that is designed to allow [...]

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Will VCs adopt a “Simple Series A?”

12 August 2009

This article on a simpler approach to smaller Series A venture capital financings was written by Ted Wang, a partner at Fenwick & West, a well-known Silicon Valley law firm.
Caveat: Ted and I worked on a deal several years ago where he represented the investors and I the company. So, my opinions of Ted’s proposal [...]

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Telling wisdom with clocks

3 August 2009

As my grandmother said, a man with two watches never knows what time it is. That’s not to be confused with “even a broken clock is right twice a day.” (I just realized that maybe Grandma had some fixation on timepieces….)

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Claiming false medals is demeaning

2 August 2009

A recent NYT article discussed the rash of false medals/military honors since the long war on terror has greatly increased the number of “everyday” people with some plausible wartime service.
(For example, I recently met an in-house attorney with JetBlue who was in the Army National Guard during law school and then deployed to Iraq. That’s [...]

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Build credibility by writing your own posts

13 April 2009

I recently saw an article with some tips on writing blog posts more quickly. They were all decent tips, but one caught my eye as being either completely misguided or crazy like a fox. Tim Scullin wrote:
Outsource Your Posts
Currently I write all my posts because I am very interested in my topic. However if you [...]

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NYT sidesteps Godwin’s Law

10 April 2009

Today’s NYT has a story about a former Capitol Hill staffer who is a “dissenter” and “skeptic” on climate change issues. He might even be a “misinformer.” Congratulations to the NYT for breaking out the thesaurus and not calling the guy a “denier.” That term is loaded and hateful in its message.
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How to build your business during slow times

24 March 2009

This recent Seth Godin post was another timely suggestion from Seth. (My probable #1 reason for subscribing to his blog is that he seems to really have a finger on the pulse of what is going on, with timely, succinct, no-fluff posts on issues that are popping up for me in the days right before [...]

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