The Law Blog of Plaintiff's Attorney Max Kennerly
Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, has been covering Soticism lately, most recently with a post on Seneca’s "On The Shortness Of Life," including this passage:
Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment
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Not too long ago, I believe at the recommendation of Walter Olson at Overlawyered, I started reading WhiteCoat Rants (renamed WhiteCoat’s Call Room when he moved to Emergency Physicians Monthly), an anonymous blog authored by a voluble ED doctor.
I have over 300 feeds in my Google Reader, including venture capitalists, scientists,…
Craig Ball tells it how it is:
Ambling along the back roads of listservs and blogs, I often come upon a flea-bitten claim that, "Top notch computer forensic examiners have special tools and techniques enabling them to recover overwritten data from a wiped hard drive so long as the drive was wiped less than
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At US News & World Report (via Slashdot):
If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he would fight just as hard to keep his BlackBerry as President Barack Obama did.
Despite his popular image as a log-splitting bumpkin and small-time country lawyer, Lincoln had an avid interest in cutting-edge technology. As an attorney, he represented railroads. During
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Via KevinMD, Atul Gawande has a lengthy and thoughtful article entitled "Getting There From Here:"
In 2007, fifty-seven million Americans had difficulty paying their medical bills, up fourteen million from 2003. On average, they had two thousand dollars in medical debt and had been contacted by a collection agency at least once.
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This, my friends, is the meaning of excellence:
Planes can float, but the US Airways Airbus A-320 that crashed into the Hudson River Thursday had a better chance than most.
That’s because it was equipped with a special device unique to Airbus planes that increased the likelihood it would stay on top of the
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Tech guru Tim O’Reilly has a great new post: Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles.
I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters. This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be.
There are a number of half-unconscious litmus tests I use in
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It’s Sunday and I’m preparing for an arbitration (as the American Arbitration Association calls it, a "Large, Complex Commercial Dispute") which gets underway tomorrow.
Hopefully your day will be a little more relaxed. Get those neurons going with some reading not related to your job:
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In the New York Times:
Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy,
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Marc S. Dreier knew the 45th-floor conference room of Solow Realty well. He had been in it many times as a trusted lawyer for the company’s founder.
So nothing seemed amiss when he showed up one afternoon in October and told a receptionist he had a meeting with her boss, people associated with
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