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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At Holy Web!, a video by Anthony Powell:
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Courtesy of The Telegraph, a tour de force in evocative writing. I reprint only the opening salvo.
Dear Mr Branson
REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008
I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents over the last few years.
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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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