David Yosifon

I am thrilled to announce the publication of my first book, Corporate Friction: How Corporate Law Impedes American Progress and What To Do About It. From Cambridge University Press, available on Amazon at tinyurl.com/corporatefrict…. Enjoy! #CorporateFriction

Read Kerouac’s Visions of Gerard and be so beat in agony and care as to be unconcerned about lists of greatest novels.

@jessesingal Some of you have never looked with patient frustration for a passage you care about in a book that you are deeply immersed in and it shows.

not the first to point this out but piers' letting the moment ride was a brilliant veteran-broadcaster decision

@robkhenderson Paging Dr. Replication, Dr Replication crisis please.

"researchers asked adults to clasp a device and squeeze it with a high level of effort to obtain rewards for themselves or others. Younger adults gripped harder than older adults for self-rewards; older adults gripped harder to gain rewards for others." theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/…

But that is not the corporate law we have. 2/2 Cf., "Is Corporate Patriotism a Virtue?" in amazon.com/Corporate-Fric… amazon.com/Corporate-Fric…

You could imagine a corporate law that construed the fiduciary duties of corporate officers to allow them to sacrifice profits if they sincerely believed the threat to profits was coming from an unconstitutional government threat to their business. 1/2

@jacobin Nobody who ever read The Long Walk ever forgot it, that’s for sure.

Based on a forgotten Stephen King dystopian novel, The Long Walk wants to be an allegory for America’s grindset mania. But unlike other works in this genre, it fails to deliver a bang and instead ends with a whimper. jacobin.com/2025/09/long-w…

@ScottSandage I have always taken the lesson to be that "anxiety" is an analytic question masquerading as an answer.

@DavidYosifon I have so many myself now that I’ve likely forgotten whatever that lesson may have been. Probably I was warning against the dreaded creep of Parsonian functionalism. How quaint of me!

@ScottSandage To this day whenever I’m reading cultural history and the author starts talking about”anxieties,” I circle the word and reach for my analytic wallet. One of your great and enduring lessons!

A blog version of my essay, "Director Primacy to the Hilt in the Public Benefit Corporation," is up on Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog today: clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2025/08/05/dir…

My essay, "Director Primacy to the Hilt in the Public Benefit Corporation," is now published and available for free download on SSRN. Enjoy! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@yieldcurved Moby-Dick as Corporate Catastrophe: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@TheStalwart Moby-Dick as Corporate Catastrophe: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Labor v. Capital and Capital trying to make itself sympathetic

we can now easily make once degradingly ugly depictions pretty and expressive

@ScottSandage And then some!

@DavidYosifon We read that together, no?

For a talk today, my depiction (AI collaboration) of Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man

Me and ChatGPT are teaching Trump's assault on the BigLaw tomorrow

And don't forget this one: youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFd…

Literally coincidentally teaching the 1929 Stock Market Crash today -- I have Woody tell it: youtube.com/watch?v=8Z6OEq…

Riddle this: If a lawyer was inadvertently included in an attorney-client privileged communication, they would have a clear ethical obligation to immediately sign-off and alert the other lawyer as to what had happened. (Not so for journalists, and properly so, but riddle it).