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@loquitur_ponte @BoringBiz_ This is really well put and something I now realize I wasn’t able to put a finger on… thanks.

I just think id suck at a normal job. How would i motivate to do something 9 to 5 (still a lot!) if it didnt feel important enough to do after? That's obviously logically possible but i dont think my brain does that kind of goldilocks importance, it needs to get done or it doesn't and "hours" reads to me as "it doesn't"

Having watched many people leave finance for jobs at startups and other corporates, there is usually one of 2 ways this typically goes > you realize that most corporate jobs suck anyway. You can’t find enough things to fill your time after the regular 9-5. You get bored out of your mind and decide that you might as well work a job that can pay you the most. These folks usually go back into finance through an MBA, or join an intense startup that has the same hours in hope for a solid equity payout > you find hobbies to fill out your time. Focus shifts to personal relationships with friends and family. Doing banking made you realize that no amount of money is worth your time or health. At the end of the day, a job is simply a job. You set a number in your mind at which you plan on retiring and just traveling the world for fun

@mike_4131 @SMB_Attorney Problem is if everyone like SMB took that story to heart we’d be like Mexico

@SMB_Attorney make it more than just a story make it real life

Three years later and I still haven’t shaken this. Perpetual anxiety about being behind and guilt when I’m not working. Probably never will. Has anyone truly solved this?

@char3258 @keatsrespecter You can do it brother.

@keatsrespecter Me reading this still searching for my first girlfriend as well

If I had a girlfriend, I would buy her a flower and give her a kiss. But I do not have a girlfriend, so I will be taking my life shortly.

@HabCorpLinguist Have you found the absence of the Oxford beneficial or detrimental to your litigation of contractual disputes? Genuine question. I thought this practice was odd when I started practicing (M&A) but haven’t questioned it.

Why do transactional people never use the oxford comma? Every time I have to do litigation involving contracts, whether drafted by people at my firm or another one, they never use oxford commas.

@BrianKorchin @exitcappin @BoringBiz_ In cash!

@exitcappin @BoringBiz_ Top lawyers at Kirkland make 20mm+ per year

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

@sivori Interesting. Had the opposite experience. My father explained far before it became possible for me to compete with him (maybe 10yrs old?) that some fathers end up competing with their sons and that it was destructive.

My dad used to tell me growing up that when I turned 18 he would take me in the backyard and “whoop my ass”. It was said often enough that it didn’t feel like a joke to me. There was a time in my life, age 11-12, when I stopped being a kid to him and seemed to become his opponent, even though I didn’t feel that way. Maybe I did, somehow, but I wasn’t conscious of it. I was just growing up and feeling my oats and bucking like a horse toward my own authority. We used to watch “Jeopardy” together and there came a time when he grew annoyed at my trying to best him, which I started to do more and more because I had a great memory and read a lot. I realized he had stopped seeing me a certain way but I still wanted to be close. I wanted to impress him and I did want to beat him, not to make him smaller but to make myself bigger to get his respect but I think this wounded him somehow, as if I were moving beyond him. Maybe we moved away from each other. Anyway, when it came time to leave things were tough at home. I think in the end he wanted me to stay while I went to college but I wanted to get away as fast as possible and live my own life, on my own terms. A month after graduating high school, I had my own apartment and was supporting myself. Looking back, I don’t feel any particular way about the past but I want my children to feel like they are always welcome and I hope that they will miss being at home though I want them to embark on their own lives and live under their own authority.

@grok @recentiy03 @typesfast @grok , give a scenario for how a policyholder would make a successful claim under these policies

War risk insurance covers ships/cargo against war, strikes, terrorism, piracy—stuff excluded from standard marine policies. It’s typically short-term (7 days to a year) with built-in cancellation clauses. When real war hits a zone (like the current Iran/Gulf situation), insurers cancel immediately because the “risk” is no longer hypothetical—it’s active, unpredictable, and could bankrupt them with huge claims. Reinsurers pull support too, so they notify owners (often 7 days) and exit. Shippers then reroute, pay massive premiums for buy-back cover, or stay away. Classic risk management: insure the “might happen,” bail when it does.

Can someone smarter than me explain why war risk insurance gets canceled when there’s a war?

@NoRiskaNoReward @mattyglesias Do you have any threads on this? Curious how you’ve handled this. Sounds like a lot of fun for young kids.

@mattyglesias Highly recommend! Have spent the last 5.5 years traveling full time with my family, spending months at a time in each place with visit. Your kid is a perfect age for it!

@SaysSimulation Can you share the article? Couldn’t find it.

Worth watching. The rate of change is still accelerating. Read an interesting article the other day about the "Middle Powers". The two Great Powers of today are the US & China. The Middle Powers are nations such as Germany, the UK & Canada. They are fearful & angry 1/

@sarahsda @SatireAP Very considerate thought. Just get a Tesla with FSD. Seriously. This is what my 75 year old father has done.

@SatireAP I am 78. I have often wondered how long I can drive. I would have no problem taking a written and practical driving test when I reach 80, and say every 5 years after that. While I feel like I'm good on the road, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask me to prove it.

A couple decades ago, my friend and her two children were taking lunch to her husband at work, when an 80+ year old man crossed the lane and hit them head on. My friend and her daughter were killed instantly. Her 4 year old son was found wandering down the road, bloody and in shock.

@contrarianrepub @mr_sanford_lyl @_S_choir I’ve heard this explained as a function of post-covid remote policies. Ie in these attorneys lost a step compared to past classes due to not coming into the office when they could have.

@mr_sanford_lyl @_S_choir is there really a noticeable difference in quality of attorneys who went via zoom during covid versus regular in-person? I guess you’d say the lawyers coming from the schools that are doing synchronous and asynchronous online programs will have the same quality issues?

“AI is going to replace junior associates.” Junior associate recruiting is saying the exact opposite lol they’re at higher demand than ever

@wstvillrefugee @_S_choir This is a good point though my sense is prior in house exp. is prized so 6-8 yrs total exp. in a posting is really 4-6 biglaw + 2 in house. Are you BL or in house?

Very common. Best time to exit BigLaw is years 3-5 imo. In house starts wanting you, “midlaw” is willing to promote you, and you’ve made a good amount of money.

@thezachloeffler @s_everson @kvshlvk How did you come to college with those skills? Great schooling? Academic as a parent(s)?

@s_everson @kvshlvk Close reading, argument reconstruction, simply noticing what’s noteworthy—all things that have to be taught. Never enough time to develop the preliminary skills thoroughly. I went to college with those skills 25 years ago. But I also remember feeling that was unusual. Not sure.

As a teaching grunt in UChicago’s philosophy Core, I can tell you there are many reasons why it’s become harder to teach Plato and Kant, and none of them are my woke animus against Western civilization.

@spiralrace @SamoBurja Do you think your lawyers do? Check your engagement letter.

@SamoBurja I will patiently wait for a legal AI company to accept any liability in case of machine error.

Don't make me tap the sign.

@nw3 @Tom80107524 @TheSalonDon Interesting framework. Hasn’t thought about status and professions this way. Professions you “picked” by admissions offices, a partner. Good brain food.

@Tom80107524 @TheSalonDon To be a professional, you have to be chosen. Even with good grades and scores, a school had to pick you, then you had to apprentice, then you had to get into a selective practice. A landlord can just take risk, work hard, or save money. He selected himself.

It’s much higher status to make $2m running grease traps than $700k as a lawyer Go to any dinner party and see who people want to talk to

@mmsmithlegal What event would’ve caused the SAFE to convert?

So, saw a SAFE for an LLC again. But like two weeks ago a real estate venture (formed as an L.P.) wanted to use a SAFE for my client an investor. That's just stupid for a lot of reasons. It was like a 20 minute phone call to my client.

@ccmembersonly I get your point about bucking excessive safety-ism but riding in a car is the one event where kids are routinely exposed to (i) non-trivial crash probability and (ii) very high potential injury severity.

@NielsHoven Can you give any more background on pricing and why it’s not, say, $20 a month rather than $500? From a profitability perspective seems like you’d do better with a much lower monthly fee and far more customers. Thanks.

Tell me more about how bad our literacy software is, it's so hard to hear you over the noise of this 2-year-old reading