Eagle squad

Education/advocacy

• Systems for good (meadows) and bad (gall)
• The role of legal
  • The two modes of legal: farming and building a frontier
  • Farming: Toyota production system
  • Frontier: normal accidents
  • The line betwixt: triage
• Philosophical battle of reductionism versus pragmatism. Plays out in the view we can manage every risk by policy.
• Commitment signalling: understanding the psychology of negotiation
  • Getting *their* business onside, and reframing the debate between their business and their legal
  • The power of interpersonal relationships. Go see the client. Build rapport. Call them. Then put it in writing.
• The nature of catastrophic risk is that it is not what you are looking at
• Legal documents as tools of persuasion
• Drafting hacks to make something more agreeable

The basis between risk management systems and legal docs

• The value of standardisation of operational controls

The smart contract concept and how it is a metaphor The division of labour: a process that requires manual checking is a bad process.

• • Example: termsheet/contract/closing memo. If you're rekeying you're wasting effort. Structure your agreement so it is a closing memo.
• How to turn legalese into plain language
• Meetings
  • As lazy/selfish by convenor
  • As inefficient/wasteful
  • As defusing of responsibility
  • As being uneasy peace/timid consensus
• Legal documents and policies as doing the same

Tools and resources

• Problem solving toolkit

Projects

• Standard document prettifier
• Triage tools
  • Putting something in the way of lawyers to ward off stupid questions from contractors and reinforce vertical command lines
• Process simplifiers
  • Removing pointless tech
  • Waste removal: identifying common gives and eliminating escalations