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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 and then linking and cross referencing-material, in a sort of holistic and non-linear way, is really easy. Being basically [[Sloth|lazy]] — a characteristic I maintain is a paragon virtue — and of chronically short attention span, this suited me perfectly. You can quickly create articles, save them down, and add to them 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. | {{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 and then linking and cross referencing-material, in a sort of holistic and non-linear way, is really easy. Being basically [[Sloth|lazy]] — a characteristic I maintain is a paragon virtue — and of chronically short attention span, this suited me perfectly. You can quickly create articles, save them down, and add to them 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]], [[ | 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. | ||
The tone is idiosyncratic and decidedly “non-corporate”, and will stay that way. From the start, creating the JC had to be not just easy, but ''fun'' to write: there was no way I could ever have stuck at anything for so long if it was a drag. And Lord only knows, there is much that is absurd about our modern corporate life and the people who populate the landscape of the financial markets. | The tone is idiosyncratic and decidedly “non-corporate”, and will stay that way. From the start, creating the JC had to be not just easy, but ''fun'' to write: there was no way I could ever have stuck at anything for so long if it was a drag. And Lord only knows, there is much that is absurd about our modern corporate life and the people who populate the landscape of the financial markets. | ||