Quote: Map v. Territory

By Rick Colosimo / April 13, 2010 / Comments Off on Quote: Map v. Territory

I was in Wikipedia for some reason earlier, and a click or two later, I was reading the entry for Alfred Korzybski, the inventor/founder of general semantics. (I’d had the book on a list of books to read for a reason that has long since escaped me, but it seemed hard to find, and I…

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Originalism outside of the law

By Rick Colosimo / February 25, 2010 / Comments Off on Originalism outside of the law

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

By Rick Colosimo / December 6, 2009 / Comments Off on Elsewhere: personal financial statements

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:…

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Why do legal opinions matter?

By Rick Colosimo / August 12, 2009 / Comments Off on Why do legal opinions matter?

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…

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