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Mike Tobias: Dec 12, 2024 12:08:22 PM
The mandate of this blog is to help people avoid making the same old bad decisions when it comes to legal technology and legal operations. It has been inspired by Charlie Munger’s quote, “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us...
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Mike Tobias: Oct 9, 2024 10:46:09 AM
The mandate of this blog is to help people avoid making the same old bad decisions when it comes to legal technology and legal operations. It has been inspired by Charlie Munger’s quote, “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have...
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Mike Tobias: Jun 8, 2024 10:35:05 AM
I've written previously about the effective application of the OODA loop to legal operations, and also where it doesn't apply. While it is a very useful tool in the right context, it is insufficient without being an embedded component in a learning...
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Mike Tobias: May 23, 2024 8:00:31 AM
I had the good fortune to attend a session at Alternative Events’ Tech Summit where Andrew Cooke, General Counsel at TravelPerk, was speaking. While the content of all the sessions at the Summit was excellent, Andrew surprised me by referencing John...
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Mike Tobias: Apr 18, 2024 11:04:08 AM
Now with the preamble out of the way from Part I, let's drill down into the LegalTech Stack issue.
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Mike Tobias: Apr 17, 2024 11:42:09 AM
I'm fortunate that next week I'll be attending the Alternative Events In-House Technology Summit in the UK. I'm looking forward to seeing some old friends and making some new ones (assuming the coffee will be strong and plentiful enough to counteract the...
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Mike Tobias: Feb 17, 2024 9:05:27 AM
Last week, when introducing a new series of posts we intend to produce, we received feedback from some very scholarly people that "nobody has ever heard of the word iatrogenics!" and that we were using terms that would alienate and confuse people.
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Mike Tobias: Feb 11, 2024 9:19:15 AM
This is the introduction to what I hope will be an ongoing series of posts. It may be slightly less regular than I’d like, but I’m going to start nevertheless and hope that it forces me to create a new habit.
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Mike Tobias: Jan 9, 2024 10:13:30 AM
Perhaps it’s a byproduct of the winner take all mentality of Silicon Valley. Or maybe it’s a manifestation of a selfish “I gotta get mine” ethos that seems to be growing in our increasingly isolationist society.
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Mike Tobias: Nov 26, 2023 1:30:53 PM
Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao, in their upcoming work entitled "The Friction Project," identify a phenomenon they call "addition sickness" in organizations.1