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}}{{Quote|''SYNOPSIS: Some cheeky little hobbits form a fellowship and set out on a perilous adventure to confront the fearsome [[mark-up|Smarkup]], a wingèd dragon made out of [[boilerplate]] that jealously guards the huge pile of [[rent]] it has appropriated from nearby merchants.''
}}{{Quote|''SYNOPSIS: Some cheeky little hobbits form a fellowship and set out on a perilous adventure to confront the fearsome [[mark-up|Smarkup]], a wingèd dragon made out of [[boilerplate]] that jealously guards the huge pile of [[rent]] it has appropriated from nearby merchants.''


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[[Boilerplate]]. No legal form has more of it than an [[NDA]]. To read one is to behold pure, abstracted, ''essence'' of [[boilerplate]]. In an NDA, ''[[boilerplate]] is all you get''.  
[[Boilerplate]]. No legal form has more of it than an [[NDA]]. To read one is to behold pure, abstracted, ''essence'' of [[boilerplate]]. In an NDA, ''[[boilerplate]] is all you get''.  


Yet generations of [[legal eagle]]s, back to the time of the [[First Men]] — lo, even unto the very [[Children of the Forest]] — have dug themselves into slit trenches to argue the toss over this quotidian contract. It has been some kind of insane compulsion: not one of them ''enjoyed'' it; not one of them saw any ''point'' in it; they found themselves ''compelled'' to do it; drawn to it, like moths to a gaslight; lemmings to a chalky cliff.
Yet generations of [[legal eagle]]s, back to the time of the [[First Men]] — lo, even unto the very [[Children of the Forest]] — have dug themselves into slit trenches to argue the toss over this workaday tract. It has been some kind of insane compulsion: not one of them ''enjoyed'' it; not one of them saw any ''point'' in it; they found themselves ''compelled'' to do it; drawn to it, like moths to a gaslight; lemmings to a chalky cliff.


“I must negotiate this [[NDA]], because ''this is what I do''. [[It is in my nature]].”
“I must negotiate this [[NDA]], because ''this is what I do''. [[It is in my nature]].”
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[[File:Contract volume curve.png|450px|thumb|right|The more a contract costs to negotiate, the fewer of them you can do. There’s no free option if everything is negotatiated.]]
[[File:Contract volume curve.png|450px|thumb|right|The more a contract costs to negotiate, the fewer of them you can do. There’s no free option if everything is negotatiated.]]
[[File:Contract curve shifted.png|450px|thumb|right|Adding a free, no-negotiation option creates a range of customers you couldn't afford to onboard, but incentivises marginal cases to take the free option too]]
[[File:Contract curve shifted.png|450px|thumb|right|Adding a free, no-negotiation option creates a range of customers you couldn't afford to onboard, but incentivises marginal cases to take the free option too]]
Creating a simple and standard alternative affects the “legal complexity curve’.<ref>This is a concept I basically made up on the hoof. Go with me on this one.</ref> It pulls it ''down'' and to the ''right'', being the directions you want it going in.   
Creating a simple and standard alternative affects the “legal complexity curve”.<ref>This is a concept I basically made up on the hoof. Go with me on this one.</ref> It pulls it ''down'' and to the ''right'', being the directions you want it going in.   


Let us tell you a story, through the prism of some fancy charts. They are stimulations of a real-life case.   
Let us tell you a story, through the prism of some fancy charts. They are stimulations of a real-life case.