Eagle squad

Systems
Normal accidents
The role of legal
- The two modes of legal: farming and building a frontier
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 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