Eagle squad

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 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

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

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