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(i) Basic waggishness for the sake of it — Toto chat, Otto {{Buchstein}} and [[Opco Boone]] nonsense. This has little value to anyone but me, and will stay free. If you enjoy it, great! | (i) Basic waggishness for the sake of it — Toto chat, Otto {{Buchstein}} and [[Opco Boone]] nonsense. This has little value to anyone but me, and will stay free. If you enjoy it, great! | ||
(ii) Substantive content about things I am ''not'' expert in, but which I’m learning and which has a bearing on legal practice: business management, complexity, systems theory, organisational sociology and so on. Much of this is in the form of book reviews | (ii) Substantive content about things I am ''not'' expert in, but which I’m learning and which I thought was interesting and has a bearing on legal practice: [[middle management|business management]], [[complexity]], [[systems theory]], organisational sociology and so on. Much of this is in the form of summaries, book reviews and (often ham-fisted) longer essays in which I try to synthesize what I have learned from these books into something useful for modern life and career management. This material will also, for the time being, be on the free site. | ||
(iii) | (iii) Detailed Capital markets legal documentation content. Hyperlinked legal terms, {{nutshell}} summaries, comparisons, summaries and in depth discussion and analysis of master trading documents. Also longer essays on market history, observations about how market dislocations and catastrophic events have unfolded, and how regulators and banking institutions have reacted to them. This material draws on 30 year “school of life” experience as a practising lawyer in the international financial markets. This will make up the bulk of the premium content. | ||
===Yes, it's contrarian=== | |||
It shouldn't need to be said but, let’s say it: this is an information resource and not specific legal advice. Any reader uses it at her own risk. These opinions are personal, many of them are idiosyncratic, impatient, polemical and, surprise surprise, ''contrarian''. Some of them are probably ''wrong''. | |||
This material is designed for people who are engaged in specialist negotiation and advisory capacities, who will already have a basic technical grounding in these disciplines. The JC frequently departs from conventional wisdom — sticks two fingers up at it — and I make no apologies for that. | |||
That is one of the key values this material brings: a different perspective, to rough up complacency and challenge preconceptions even where they may be perfectly reasonable. The JC will often get things wrong. It isnot perfect. But neither, as the JC’s [[financial disasters roll of honour]] demonstrates, ''is anyone else''. There are fakers, dilettantes, confidence players and bullshitters everywhere. The JC just admits it. | |||
Think of the JC as a contribution to your cognitive diversity quotient. | |||
===How it will make things better=== | ===How it will make things better=== | ||
Paid subscriptions will help with technological improvements to the site and its content: better documentation of and a tidy-up to the coding to manage the technical back-end, which should make the whole thing more consistent. Depending on how much subscription we get we will commission some help to build out content, making the site more comprehensive. We have some far off, dreamy plans to create a customised offering for in-house teams, but that is a bit further off in the future. | |||