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{{a|devil|{{image|Past Present and Future|jpg|''Past, Present and Future'' {{vsr|1923}}}}}}=== | {{a|devil|{{image|Past Present and Future|jpg|''Past, Present and Future'' {{vsr|1923}}}}}}===How it started=== | ||
The JC has been running in one form or another now for nearly fifteen years. It started out as one dude — me — trying to nut out the close out mechanics of the {{isdama}} and then put it somewhere where he wouldn’t lose it. It has grown a bit but that is still basically the idea. | The JC has been running in one form or another now for nearly fifteen years. It started out as one dude — me — trying to nut out the close out mechanics of the {{isdama}} and then put it somewhere where he wouldn’t lose it. It has grown a bit but that is still basically the idea. | ||
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All of this, with a day-job. Mind you, the JC has largely been how I have managed to ''do'' a day job since I started it — lawyers gravely undervalue [[knowledge management]], even though it should be the most important thing they do. Nevertheless I owe a debt of gratitude to a sequence of employers over the last decade and a half for letting me carry on with it. They know who they are. | All of this, with a day-job. Mind you, the JC has largely been how I have managed to ''do'' a day job since I started it — lawyers gravely undervalue [[knowledge management]], even though it should be the most important thing they do. Nevertheless I owe a debt of gratitude to a sequence of employers over the last decade and a half for letting me carry on with it. They know who they are. | ||
=== | ===Where it’s at=== | ||
Broadly the JC splits down three ways: | Broadly the JC splits down three ways: | ||
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'''Legal stuff''': Detailed legal documentation “[[anatomies]]”. These include hyperlinked versions of canonical legal terms, the JC’s own {{nutshell}} summaries of those terms, comparisons and in-depth discussion and analysis of common practical, commercial and legal issues. Also, longer (also often ham-fisted) essays on market history, market dislocations and catastrophic events, and how regulators and banking institutions have reacted to them or, in the JC’s unsolicited opinion, ''should'' have. 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. | '''Legal stuff''': Detailed legal documentation “[[anatomies]]”. These include hyperlinked versions of canonical legal terms, the JC’s own {{nutshell}} summaries of those terms, comparisons and in-depth discussion and analysis of common practical, commercial and legal issues. Also, longer (also often ham-fisted) essays on market history, market dislocations and catastrophic events, and how regulators and banking institutions have reacted to them or, in the JC’s unsolicited opinion, ''should'' have. 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. | ||
It shouldn’t need to be said but, let’s say it: this is an information resource and [[Disclaimer|not specific legal advice]]. Any reader uses it at {{sex|her}} own risk. These are strong opinions weakly held: they are personal, idiosyncratic, impatient, polemical and, surprise surprise, ''contrarian''. A good portion of them are probably ''wrong''. Like its author’s mind, it is also prone to unexpected change, without warning or notice. Everything is provisional. | It shouldn’t need to be said but, let’s say it: this is an information resource and [[Disclaimer|not specific legal advice]]. Any reader uses it at {{sex|her}} own risk. These are strong opinions weakly held: they are personal, idiosyncratic, impatient, polemical and, surprise surprise, ''contrarian''. A good portion of them are probably ''wrong''. Like its author’s mind, it is also prone to unexpected change, without warning or notice. Everything is provisional. | ||
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Think of the JC as a contribution to your cognitive diversity quotient. | Think of the JC as a contribution to your cognitive diversity quotient. | ||
===Where | ===Where it’s going === | ||
There are a host of “push” resources out there: [[client briefing]]s, newsletters, Twitter feeds and so on, shunting discrete and unconnected “timely” information at you. There are comparatively few “pull” resources — deep, interconnected, nonlinear resources where the reader comes to the material, rather than having it shoved in the reader’s face. This is because building a pull resource is a big job. You can’t do it overnight, and it usually takes a lot of people and coordination. | There are a host of “push” resources out there: [[client briefing]]s, newsletters, Twitter feeds and so on, shunting discrete and unconnected “timely” information at you. There are comparatively few “pull” resources — deep, interconnected, nonlinear resources where the reader comes to the material, rather than having it shoved in the reader’s face. This is because building a pull resource is a big job. You can’t do it overnight, and it usually takes a lot of people and coordination. | ||