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I cancelled Bloomberg Law. It was an agonizing decision-making process. The decision itself was not hard. If anything, it was obvious and overdue. That tension, of having an obvious decision that still needs to be teased
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The Place for Print
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My immersion in law school life continues. All faculty are asked to proctor a final exam so I had that experience. The room slowly filled with laptops and piles of books and notes and outlines, sometimes
The Humility of Expertise
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My wife and I are house hunting. We are hoping it will be our last move, as we have moved a few times already, always because my desire for challenging work took us to new places.
Thwarted Prayers
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This is the first Christmas in 6 years that all of my family will be in North America. The first Christmas my parents have bothered to get a tree to decorate, since it didn’t feel like
Re-Publish Your Twitter Archive
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I have departed X as a social space like so many others. You will still find my handle on there but it’s not somewhere I linger. My brother’s ordeal in Russia meant I used that account
The Found Legal Scholar
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Let us take a walk into the unknown. I have spent most of the last year thinking about how legal scholarship is promoted and connected. Not so much from the perspective of the librarian assisting faculty,
Slow News Days
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I am leaning increasingly on a philosophy of slow news. It’s a pretty big change for me, because I used to enjoy getting information from multiple media, especially the radio. NPR and PRI podcasts used to
An Unsettled Mind
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One of the things I enjoy in life is when two things I’m interested in converge. I am finding that with teaching, as I read up on how to do it better. One topic—mindset—grabbed my attention
Anti-Social Broadcast
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I have been on Mastodon for nearly two years. It has been interesting learning the new culture. I tend to take people at face value there so, when someone asked why their posts weren’t gaining engagement,
Measure What Matters
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I have been unhappily surprised by the apparent lack of usage data available to academic law libraries. After talking to some folks at the MAALL annual meeting, my own experience seems to be a common