August 2017

Harvey, social media and getting real

It’s Day 3: I’m sitting in my island of a home waiting out #Harvey.

I’m one of the very lucky ones. I still have power, potable water and a working Netflix account.

But I’m movied out and reduced to organizing my closet.

On Day 1, I packed my evacuation bags: insurance, check; passport, check; undies,

It almost never fails when I run into someone I used to work with. The conversation starts with “Hey… how’s the law library world? It’s gotta be tough with all those books being online now.” (The implication being “aren’t you worried about becoming irrelevant?”) I reply with “Yeah, that makes it a whole lot more

Self-reflection can easily become self-delusion. I’m either about to write something that runs counter to my own vested interests, or I’m preemptively defending those interests from unfriendly empirical evidence. I don’t know myself well enough to tell you which. Regardless, I’ve long believed most convergence initiatives waste considerable time for limited benefit despite the fact