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Archive for May, 2008

Getting better through practice

Posted in Clients, Lawyering, Learning on 8 May 2008 | 1 Comment »

Law firms, perhaps professional service firms in general, attribute significance to experience. As David Maister puts it, “clients can look for experience, expertise or efficiency.” Real expertise (as in “this is the person who defines this area of practice”) is hard to come by; few firms can expect to have an excess of experts. Efficiency [...]

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The space between the trees

Posted in Culture, Happiness on 7 May 2008 | 2 Comments »

I had a phone conversation with my father a couple of weeks ago, which ranged over a myriad of subjects, as usual. For some reason we ended up talking about happiness, especially (Buddhism-influenced) view that you can only be happy when you stop seeking happiness. He had been unable to find the source of this [...]

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How we see it

Posted in Culture, KM, Knowledge, Lawyering, Web2.0 on 5 May 2008 | No Comments »

Charles Arthur comments on the journalism vs new media debate, and in doing so explains his one rule for writing a blog post.
The rule is this: when I write the post, I know more about that particular topic than the average person who’s going to read it. But I don’t know more about the particular topic [...]

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