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{{a|devil|}}The JC has been running in one form or another now for nearly fifteen years. It started out as one dude — me — trying to understand the {{isdama}} and then put it somewhere where he wouldn’t lose it. The open source [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki platform] — the same one [[Wikipedia]] runs on — turned out to be a brilliant way of maintaining and building knowhow. Creating | {{a|devil|}}The JC has been running in one form or another now for nearly fifteen years. It started out as one dude — me — trying to understand the {{isdama}} and then put it somewhere where he wouldn’t lose it. | ||
The open source [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki platform] — the same one [[Wikipedia]] runs on — turned out to be a brilliant way of maintaining and building knowhow. Creating, linking and cross-referencing material in a holistic and [[non-linear]] way is really easy on MediaWiki. | |||
Being basically a [[Sloth|lazy]] sod — a trait I maintain is a paragon virtue — with a chronically short attention span, this way of working suits me perfectly. You can quickly create articles, save them down, and fix them them later. You can edit while you are on the train, walking the dog, or being driven slowly up the wall by middle managers on a weekly [[stakeholder]] check-point [[all-hands conference call]]. anything you start now you can come back to later. | |||
If you never do, it can’t have been that important. This is content creation by a kind of alluvial process: small, inconsequential additions silt up over time. | |||
So I started silting away. Before long, the JC had fully summarised and analysed anatomies of both editions of the ISDA, and other definitions booklets, master agreements, and legal resources followed. Some remained embryonic, some got deleted, some grew. Coverage has always been idiosyncratic, following my prevailing practice specialisation (you will observe: [[ISDA]], commodities, [[equities]], [[Equity derivatives|equity derivatives]], [[Prime broker|prime brokerage]], [[Emission allowances|emissions]], [[Repackaging programme|structured notes]], [[repackaging]], [[Credit derivative|credit derivatives]], in that order). My focus has always been analysing, explaining, simplifying, demystifying and ''contextualising'' — the commercial context possibly the most important of all since that is the one most often lost on newcomers (and, frankly, old hands) in these highly specialised products. | So I started silting away. Before long, the JC had fully summarised and analysed anatomies of both editions of the ISDA, and other definitions booklets, master agreements, and legal resources followed. Some remained embryonic, some got deleted, some grew. Coverage has always been idiosyncratic, following my prevailing practice specialisation (you will observe: [[ISDA]], commodities, [[equities]], [[Equity derivatives|equity derivatives]], [[Prime broker|prime brokerage]], [[Emission allowances|emissions]], [[Repackaging programme|structured notes]], [[repackaging]], [[Credit derivative|credit derivatives]], in that order). My focus has always been analysing, explaining, simplifying, demystifying and ''contextualising'' — the commercial context possibly the most important of all since that is the one most often lost on newcomers (and, frankly, old hands) in these highly specialised products. | ||