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A stroll through the brambles, taking in law, management, philosophy, language, technology, cricket and high finance. Like a good alluvial fan, everything is silting up nicely and there are now 4,497 articles in this wiki.

Latest news Never gonna gross you up — What it would be like were Rick Astley a tax lawyer Negotiation anatomy — Our brand new snarky guide to deal-doing Conference call anatomy — Our field guide to the world of corporate tedium Middle management blues — Our own tribute to W.H. Auden General counsel and “self-awareness” go together like soup and naval signaling systems. Next following: what it has to do with Voilet Elizabeth Botts out of Just William. The J.C.’s nutshell ISDA ... and a burgeoning nutshell equity derivatives defs!

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Anatomies: Clause-by-clause Anatomy and nutshell guides (hit the bar on the left) to ISDA Master Agreement and other master trading agreements. These may be incomplete, out of date, out of touch, flippant — well, they are flippant — but will still be better value and more entertaining than that awful FT book about derivatives;
Book reviews culled from twenty indolent years sounding off on Amazon;
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