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...hauvinism is the opposite of that. A perspective chauvinist says,“you know what? It ''is'' you.” ...simply a reflection that, however far we have come, we are not there yet. We are but hobbits, on the way to Mt. Doom.

{{caps|'''[[Legal ops]]'''}}: We must innovate! We have earmarked technology budget to innovate! <br> {{caps|'''[[JC]]'''}}: Great! How about some decent document comparison software?<br>

...ignored in construing this Agreement”}}What is it that the [[legal eagle]] so distrusts about headings? ...lified clerks, or something — I am totally making this up — but that isn’t how things work now.</ref> At best, this provides cover to the miscreant who la

...ons|brilliant theory]] and succinctly describes what pragmatic people find so excruciating about academic [[philosophy]]. ...n’t so much silly as ''rueful'', is: “why did I just do that do myself and how will I get those hours of my life back?” It brims full of silly answers,

...assion]]ate is to ''recognise'' suffering, but step back from it and ask “how can I help?” We are not sure that “compassion” is quite as good an organising principle

...l evidence at all.<ref>See also James Suzman’s {{br|Work: A History of How we Spend Our Time}}</ref> money is more likely to have always represented inde ...cally very risky. All of the colossal complication that we know, love, and we rent-seeking agents secrete ourselves into the loving satin folds of, arise

...legislation]] requires, on pain of — well it isn’t really clear on pain of what, exactly — legal departments to go around inserting approved contractual ...ive of the terms of a contract. BRRD is clear: bail-in applies whether you know about it or not, and whether the language is present or not.

...''Socialist Worker'' — ''selling'' a socialist screed is a delicious irony isn’t it —then your product is a long way down the Maslow hierarchy of needs, a ...umer choices then no matter how distasteful you might find the business of what you do, pitching it as way of virtue signalling is dumb. Because ''Republic

...f cholera]] we’ve heard much about what is, or isn’t, the “new normal” and how institutional employers might be “pivoting” from the unexpected marvel ...titutional disposition has thus settled: ''calm the hell down, everyone''. We’ve ''got'' this. There’s nothing to see: this is ''not'' a new normal.

===[[Bitcoin]] isn’t a [[currency]]=== [[Cash]], as you’ll know if you’ve had the pleasure of the [[JC]]’s [[Cash|frequent tedious pero

...didn’t notice? Whose trick? ''What'' trick? Introduce her beauty before we know who she is. ...hands. That’s how things were now. The sidewalk wasn’t quite wide enough, so Quentin trailed after them, like a sulky child. He would rather have been a

{{caps|''Blackadder''}}: I wouldn’t be too hopeful — that’s what all the other ones will be used for. ...You will, accordingly, misprice that asset, and you may be disappointed in how much people will be prepared to pay for it.

{{quote|“Who says port isn’t sexy?”<ref>http://www.ponsonbynews.co.nz/article-detail/show/2103/</ref>} Now the JC doesn’t know — ''waaaay'' to sexy for that — but he supposes that, when it comes to

...|Tedium|/ˈtiːdɪəm/|n|}}<br>1. The state of being [[tedious]]; a [[noun]] ''so'' dull that dictionaries regularly define it by reference to its [[adjectiv ...included in hundreds of dictionaries, although perhaps none have rendered so poetic and succinct a definition as Nathaniel Bailey’s entry in his 1756

{{author|Rory Sutherland}}’s ten rules, and how these translate into the [[JC]]’s messed up, post-structuralist view. ...ycho-physics'''” — the difference between perception and reality. How what we see, hear, taste and feel differs from ‘objective’ reality.

...at least as a metaphor, “[[Darwin’s Dangerous Idea]]” explains a lot about how complex decentralised systems of any kind work. ...d duties independent of its directors, offices, servants and shareholders. We take it for granted that the firm, and the natural people engaged on its be

...nformation is in the public domain, it is available for everyone to see or know about”}} ...ion that ''could be'' protected by [[intellectual property]] rights, but ''isn’t'', whether because those rights have expired, been forfeited, waived, or fo

Aren’t so ''smart''.. ...“becoming healthy, funny and physically appealing” — which is most likely what you really want. And, as with all Greek tragedies one can attain the proxy

...come to mean “cutting one’s fishing line” — giving up the fish altogether. So, “crap, or get off the pot”.}}}}“[[Use it or lose it]]”, in the ver ...agree when you were a two-person start-up above a shoe-shop in Camden. I ''know'', right?

...as it is informed so deeply by such a utopian (or dystopian, depending on how you look at it) view. ...just as for those currently redundant young masters of the universe then, we’re on the cusp of a brave new world.

{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” :—Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, qui

...cing transactions regulation]], by composing an unctuous reply for you. “''So'' inspiring!” <br> 4. Oh help me we lawyers are all doomed because of ChatGPT-3

...al bounds to which no stock can go. Well, we now know this not to be quite so obviously the case. The internet can stay irrational a lot longer than you ...but ''not out of the question''. Can we imagine $7,000 though, or $70,000? What would [[Homey don’t play that|Homey]] say about that?

...review|}}JC is no expert but he likes to twang on his guitar and he knows what he likes. This will be a series of deeply idiosyncratic investigations of u Along the way, we will look at the musical composition, instrumentation, technology, perform

...this time is different, yet so many still buy into the pyramid scheme that we are special. It is both self-aggrandising and self-exonerating; it feels ri ...what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it

...sign, but in calling his book “sign here”, and not “everything you need to know about designing commercial legal process in the twenty first century” {{a What I liked about it especially is that so much of it focuses not on [[legal services delivery|legal services ''delive

Commentators are given to bemoaning the loss of confidence in truth — we are hostages to “personal truths” that cannot be gainsaid — this is t ...uch consensus even on trivial points — if there were we would hardly spend so much time talking about them —

So we have the old [[LinkedIn]] saw: {{Shitmaxim|Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about}}.

...ed by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them. Note how, even ion Thomas More’s original vision, plainly utopia can resemble dyst

...interface|user-interface]] easy enough for the [[meatware]] to deal with ''so you didn’t need a service contract''. Right? Of course, “software as a service” isn’t charging a running cost for static software. It is charging a running cost

{{a|book review|{{image|what we owe the future|jpg|}}}}{{quote| ...erhaps ''too'' widely-read — and he applies his polymathic range to ''What We Owe The Future'' with some panache.

...[legal eagle|over-enthusiastic members of the bar]] waxing lengthily about how they ''do'' differ? it will not.<ref>Pedants will note the different roles ...ng fruitlessly about who should be the {{isdaprov|Calculation Agent}}, and what rights the other poor sap should have to challenge its determinations, in p

...reternaturally nimble, responsive to society’s demands: best incentivised, so the theory had it, to allocate capital where the community most needed it. ...he disasters of central planning, five-year plans, great leaps forward and so on.” These are ''theoretical'' philosophies: robust in concept but flimsy

...ious, but often are. [[Bernie Madoff|Bernard Madoff]] was a bad apple, but so was the [[GameStop]] share rally, and Citigroup’s archaic [[Citigroup v B ...what we’ll all then ''do'', but this is surely just a quibble: the problem we would love to have.

...e suffused the nation and Gordon Brown banished boom and bust [''subs: can we check this?''] rates stayed abnormally low, around six per cent. ...es that led to the interest rate derivatives market]] What didn’t change — what hasn’t changed since the invention of credit, and which will not change u

...esides, even if the disclosure is only “requested” it is the sort of thing we should expect parties in a commercial relationship to be adult about: where ...ry disclosure (see below for obligatory essay) but there is a balance, and we think OneNDA strikes this balance fairly well. Also, if you ''notify'' the

...long as it gets its [[commission]], it doesn’t really care a hill of beans what its [[principal]] gets, however much it might protest to the contrary. ...e round]] game, for which the option payoff is markedly different. This is what {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} calls the “Rubin Trade”.

*[[This time is different|This time ''isn’t'' different]]. The laws of physics, finance and economics still apply. Even ...harlatans use heuristics ''instead'' of it. See: {{br|Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed}}

We have canvassed the odd phenomenon of [[mediocrity drift]] whereby the feedb ...mal in job lots]], and letting the jumped-up and flighty go one at a time, we are nicely containing our costs within a range.”

...n risk''. It’s a free country. (Now, we say, “its own dime”: note, though, how common it is for an agent to ask its customer to foot the bill: it gets pai ...for the agent to sue its lawyers''. That’s what it paid the blighters for: so they, and that juicy [[professional indemnity insurance]] policy they never

...'[[certainty]]''. This is a matter of basic [[jurisprudence]]: we hear it, we think, “oh, yes; well, of course,” and nod along as our professor conti ...our temples and institutions. It is in the weave of the priestly garments. We have carried its spirit like a holy candle, through our education and into

{{a|repack|{{image|Fidgety phillip|jpg|What happens if you do not concentrate on your debt extinction language}}}}Of a ...vestors''. At this point, the [[espievie]] has nothing left to pay anyone, so launching a [[Bankruptcy|bankruptcy petition]] is kinda — ''academic'', b

...mptions when solving problems (the “[[Duncker candle problem]]”), and then what sorts of incentives work best for solving those kinds of problems (the “[ ...th a rather good book on the topic: {{br|Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us}}.

...world businesses great and small, ''coped''. (It rather begs the question what good all those strategies, consultants, [[change manager]]s and [[BCM]] pro We adapted. We learned: working from home is pretty cool! [[Pyjamas]]! Zoom! Kids rushing

...e old ladies, welsh hoteliers and, apparently, tax dodgers make bad law]], so ''en garde''. ...unately, this kind of buccaneering plays no further part in the story, but we mention it to egg you on to keep reading.

...the mean time I am constantly beset by daemons, plagues, dread terrors and so on, fantastical threnodies all on the single worry that ''you never pay me ...dismal your contractors may be, suing them will be worse, and “self-help” isn’t really an option. If it was, no-one would hire builders in the first place.

...es, articles of faith, and credentialisation process, usually encrusted in so much obscurant flummery that it is impossible for non-initiates to get near ...ose'' — the more ossified and moribund the research programme must become. We see this time and again, with [[Power structure|power structures]] of all k

“What? Give that here.” The Precedent Commander scowled. It aggrieved him to se He tossed it over. “What do you make of this one then, lad?”

...s original and completely misses the subtle epigrammatic subtext — as such we heartily recommend you steer well clear of it.</ref> recently wrote about i I hope so.