The Law Blog of Plaintiff's Attorney Max Kennerly
I don’t update the "productivity" topic you see to the right as often as I thought I would. As I wrote three months ago, in my most recent "productivity" post (about "batch processing"):
[L]ike Merlin Mann, after an extensive time following the productivity genre/industry in details, I have generally soured on the relentless gadgetry, listmaking, fickleness
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A VC (a.k.a. Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist and principal of Union Square Ventures), commenting on a WSJ story, makes a simple, but powerful point about many of the tech startup companies floating around:
As Chris said in his WSJ piece, Facebook has been widely derided for the low CPMs it generates (pennies in Chris’ words).
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Most everything you need to know to be a Google, Windows, Mac and Firefox professional. Nice.
Bruce MacEwen, great as ever, on assessing the quality of legal representation in the general counsel / big firm context:
On a 1 to 5 score, from unacceptable through mediocre, good, and very good to excellent, the criteria [for evaluating all lawyers a company uses] are:
- Understood client’s goals
- Expertise
- Efficiency
- Responsiveness
- Predictive accuracy (about
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Lifehacker.com provides Twitter Users Worth Following.
I don’t twitter, but some of those look just intriguing enough… like tinybuddha, which has recently twittered, inter alia:
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." ~Basho
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but
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How many e-mails do you have in your inbox? I was doing great, then had the five-week trial, and as of this morning it was 3682.
Time to re-implement Inbox Zero.
Really, if you do one thing today, get your DMZ going:
- Open your email program and create a new folder called “
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Legalwriting.net is unhappy with this advice:
“Do not ever for the second time give your senior a piece of writing with a typo or a grammatical mistake,” says Berry. “I will take it once and I will tell the junior my set speech.” But if it happens again? Well, find out for yourself.
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At Concurring Opinions, The Truth about Multitasking:
I’ve been of two minds about multitasking for some time. But growing evidence is suggesting that the very concept is a myth:
Dr. Edward Hallowell, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and has written a book with the self-explanatory title CrazyBusy,
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Via How Appealing:
The Boston Globe today contains an article that begins, "The Wilmer Hale law firm, one of the largest and most respected in Boston, has a reputation for championing unpopular causes: President Nixon during impeachment. The US Army during the McCarthy hearings. Even defending serial killer Ted Bundy. But the firm’s past
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Via Boing Boing:
The researchers compared sleeping in for 90 minutes each morning to taking a 20-minute nap at 2:30 p.m. or taking 150 milligrams of caffeine (equivalent to about two cups of coffee) at 2:00 p.m…
When the volunteers did nothing, they fell asleep within nine minutes on average when tested at 3:30 in
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