You Can’t Take It With You
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You Can’t Take It With You
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Re: You Can’t Take It With You
#2He probably has a point about preserving your knowledge but I find his fascination with this 'Fortune 100 lawyer' a little odd. Those are the guys that battle out stuff like Microsoft/SCO vs. IBM or the hypothetical "MPEG-LA patent trolls Google for WebM", right?
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#3He probably has a point about preserving your knowledge but I find his fascination with this 'Fortune 100 lawyer' a little odd. Those are the guys that battle out stuff like Microsoft/SCO vs. IBM or the hypothetical "MPEG-LA patent trolls Google for WebM", right?
He is not fascinated with the lawyer but with his proficiency in his field, the field is irrelevant.
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#4I had a conversation with a well-known entrepreneur in my city. He has created a chain of cafés (completely different from my field) but we talked a lot (in fact, he talked, I questioned and listened) and I learned a great deal.
At the end of the conversation, he said "it has been a long time since I talked that much". WHAT? It meant that I was probably one of the few lucky who had learned from his experience. I always thought that entrepreneur were sharing their knowledge to everyone once they were big enough.
I hope that he will write about this someday but for the moment, I'll just write it myself in a document and try to find a way to share it.
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#5He probably has a point about preserving your knowledge but I find his fascination with this 'Fortune 100 lawyer' a little odd. Those are the guys that battle out stuff like Microsoft/SCO vs. IBM or the hypothetical "MPEG-LA patent trolls Google for WebM", right?
He is not fascinated with the lawyer but with his proficiency in his field, the field is irrelevant.
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#6Better to take it one step further. Find people like this, interview them, put the videos online and let everybody share in their wisdom.
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#7Better to take it one step further. Find people like this, interview them, put the videos online and let everybody share in their wisdom.
Sweet fancy Moses, please no videos. Transcribe to text.
My bandwidth reading is an order of magnitude greater reading than watching.
I've almost given up on video on the web for interviews.
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#8I doubt the lawyer would risk his career by giving away his strategy/tactics.
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#9I doubt the lawyer would risk his career by giving away his strategy/tactics.
Hence the suggestion that he do it after retiring from practice.
Re: You Can’t Take It With You
#10He probably has a point about preserving your knowledge but I find his fascination with this 'Fortune 100 lawyer' a little odd. Those are the guys that battle out stuff like Microsoft/SCO vs. IBM or the hypothetical "MPEG-LA patent trolls Google for WebM", right?
He is not fascinated with the lawyer but with his proficiency in his field, the field is irrelevant.
Hmm, but:
I’ll use misdirection to get the opposing counsel thinking I’m heading in one direction
This is the wrong lesson. He's good at exploiting the legal system, that's all. It's not about who is right, it's about who has the cleverer lawyer. All this guy's "experience" is zero-sum, he's creating no wealth, he's purely parasitic. He's like a salesman who sells you something you don't want just because he's good at persuasion. Why would you want to teach the next generation of lawyers to milk their clients more effectively?