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| Amazon Fire 7 screenshot of the cozy mystery, The Case of the Fallen Hero |
Admittedly, I am late to the game on buying an Amazon Fire. I’ve been cheating, downloading the free Kindle app onto all of my devices, even reading on my browser rather
I just finished renewing a vendor contract over the past couple of weeks and the experience left a bitter taste in my mouth. Sudden changes in how the product is structured caused our existing “all-in” contract to suddenly become an “almost all-in” contract. It wasn’t so much that I was surprised at how it went
Bullshit begets bullshit.
There was an overwhelming response to my last post on law firm marketing bullshit. So here I am writing an entire series. That’s how it works.
Which also happens to be my rejoinder to my sole (known) critic. While most commentary was positive, a
Tim Peterson (@petersontee) of MarketingLand.com did a great job of analyzing a moving target in sizing up “How Facebook’s, Instagram’s and Snapchat’s audience size estimates compare.”
Now, I realize that many believe that Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat have little or no value to law firms. I beg to differ. Think
I’ve been a member of Facebook since, I don’t know, maybe 2009? I have always been cautious about Facebook. It was never my favorite social media tool. But, as they say, keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
I’m fairly adept at Facebook but I was slow to get on board and very selective
First, the obligatory nod to On Bullshit. For the academically inclined, there is subversive fun in being able to deploy “bullshit” as a term of art. The custom is “bullshit” does not constitute profanity if you dutifully cite Harry Frankfurt. To summarize Frankfurt:
The liar aims to deceive. The bullshitter aims to persuade. The
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,
I recently listened to the Sincerely, X podcast series co-presented by TED and Audible. The series shares true stories that the tellers feel are “too sensitive, painful or potentially damaging to share publicly” and so they share them anonymously. To be honest, I am not sure how I feel about the anonymous aspect of the
I am usually one who believes if you need to tell someone you are valuable, you probably aren’t. However, I want to pile on with Heather Morse and others for legal media writers to stop using the term “non-lawyer” when describing legal professionals who work on the operations side of law firms. It’s just