Entry #1 - Hello World.
November 30, 2023
Welcome to my journal, glad you are here. This first entry offers you a guide into what I am trying to accomplish.
Overall, I am creating this journal to write about topics I’m interested in, to discuss how I think about things as an attorney, and in order to reconnect electronically with the many people I no longer get to interact with on a daily basis (but still have much to learn from).
I’ve learned a lot about the practice of law by simply having normal conversations with normal people, and want to actively cultivate more of those.
Based on my experience so far, I think a persistent theme of these entries will be that our modern life is full of complications arising from competing considerations (and alliterations). Often there is no certainty that any one decision is entirely correct, but one needs to be made regardless.
I will also do my best to intermix art and photography that I reflect with for each entry, which I believe helps humanize complex decisions.
Don’t worry, this journal is not strictly legal in nature. While I have no choice but to write with the voice of a patent attorney (yes, I am the one writing these, not my GPT), I will do my best to make my entries interesting, accessible, and not too long.
In any event, I hope you continue to read, and you find at least some of these entries helpful in your own pursuits. I will try to author one every week or so, no promises, it depends on how much real work I have to do.
…and yes, I welcome (preferably constructive) commentary about any of my entries, as well as questions readers want me to investigate privately on their behalf.
However, I cannot guarantee that I will have the relevant skills to provide meaningful responses (which is a requirement of my profession). But I will do my best to help where I can, or connect you with someone who would be able to.
