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question for all of you writers: can consuming art make you better at creating it? I love narrative and stories (all forms and genres - plays, TV shows, novels, movies, etc.) - I partake but am aggressively untalented at creating. how do I get there from here? #WritingCommunity

@CreativeReader3 maybe he didn’t want his work to know.

@writeclimbrun upset with you? he should be grateful if anything.. I hope he is ok.. how are you feeling? must have been a chock.. good thing you responded so quickly

OMG I was on a zoom call with someone and he had a heart attack while on the call with me. literally keeled over and hit his head incoherently, bleeding.

@writeclimbrun OC on a deal I was on in 2007 had a fatal grabber over the weekend and I was probably the last person who ever talked to him. He didn't get back to me all weekend, which was off, and his partner called me at 10 on Monday. They think he bit the dust Friday night.

@TiredBambooLaw babe it's 1000/hr it's really pleasurable

much like lap dances, we all know biglaw costs big money, but what counts as "big" will vary based on individual experience. For some its $800/hr. For some it's $4000/hr. Keeps things in perspective.

@TiredBambooLaw So Claude is @writeclimbrun now?

@Eli_Albrecht gotta charge more brother

Many family offices/indy sponsors are very small fish in a big pond - that results in less attention and care for the deal. Also, I should probably charge more.

We closed an M&A deal or a family office that previously used BigLaw for all their deals. Today, the client told me, while the price was half as much, the quality was double. He said, even if the price was double, we would have been happy.

@Corbienest onlyfeet

Only 886 verified followers to go before your girl is eligible for subscriptions at which point I’ll start publishing actual recipes and (if the kids cooperate by staying out of my hair) cooking videos for subscribers! 🙌

@PanDaoism ha aphantasia I just have!

@writeclimbrun I remember the aphantasia long covid saga being miserable at your previous role and now all of this with the Mandate of Heaven. You love to see it.

I was a little bit scared when I had 0 of my own clients several months ago. I definitely oversold the hell out of a potential engagement, and I undersold myself. now that I have 15 of my own, they show up in droves. 2 new referrals today. and my pitch is so smooth now.

@BoringBiz_ Especially when only a select few that put in those hours for years come even remotely close to that level of comp.

Having been both a lawyer and a banker it is 100% the case that lawyers have it worse from a work life perspective and that the work of a corporate or restructuring lawyer is less interesting and much less fun. Part of what makes it a worse job is that clients know every time they talk to you you are billing them. It’s not a great dynamic for relationship building.

@BoringBiz_ I still haven’t been able to wrap my head around this career path. You spend your life effectively as the lowest man on the transaction team totem pole for ~roughly the same~ pay.

Have a few friends who have been restructuring and bankruptcy lawyers at Kirkland for a few years now I never thought it was possible, but they legitimately have worse hours and work life balance than investment bankers Talking around the clock work past midnights, weekends, and holidays. Very little room for personal life At some point, the money is not even worth it anymore

@PanDaoism just one sip

@writeclimbrun How many pints until the fae start becoming visible?

can't wait for Oberon day.

Kirkland equity partners vs non equity partners

note to self: don’t comment on lawyers + ai lmao. the lawyers are all trying to litigate against me in the replies. 🤣

@TiredBambooLaw reverse Costco karma

95 degrees in March I was meant to be on a beach right now not asking about mysterious line items on my legal bills.

@CoffeeBlackMD oh you just wait till you see what's in my blood and what I've been consuming (oh wait you already do that.)

@writeclimbrun Yes.

The scene: *Patient’s room. The physician is in the middle of a big internal medicine nerd sh*t hospital hemoptysis work up … new results back and being communicated* Doc: Urine tox is back Greg. It’s positive for cocaine. Were you smoking crack?! Patient: Yeah doc!! I love that stuff!! Tryna quit!! Doc: 😑 Patient: 😅🤪😘