
Ali Assareh
Jul 19, 20241 min read
Beautiful flowers!
I love these flowers so much. Every single flower is itself made up of 20 to 30 smaller flowers. I used to see them in San Francisco, on...

I love these flowers so much. Every single flower is itself made up of 20 to 30 smaller flowers. I used to see them in San Francisco, on...

On the late afternoon of Tuesday, March 23, 2022, Ukrainian poet Volodymyr Vakulenko was scurrying around his childhood home’s garden,...

One of the perks of being married to the brilliant Masayo Nobe is that I continue to learn from her to become a better lawyer. Two nights...

This is a nice management insight from Mark Cuban: If you hold someone responsible for some thing, but don’t give them the authority to...

Love is built, not found. (And the same is true of Passions, too.) In the realm of relationships, it takes a lot of work to build...

BigLaw salary sounds like A LOT of money when you start — two hundred thousand dollars!!!! 😮 Until you realize the salary is paid for...

I’ve really intentionally tried to take my life forward one step at a time, over the past few years. I have NO IDEA “where I want to be...

I've made a flow chart to help my team process contract comments / redlines. What do you think? I'd appreciate your comments and...

Little Edemame seeds (left) are sprouting (right)! I’m always amazed by how dead information (seeds) can just spring into life with a...

The most common manager mistakes, according to The Manager's Handbook, by Alex MacCaw: 1. Heroing: Doing your team's work on their...

I didn’t know the term “boycott” was coined after Charles Boycott, an English landlord agent in Ireland. In the 1870s, Boycott was a...

As in house counsel, your client is “the company” — not the law, not the government, not regulators. Sometimes in-house counsel forget...

A tiny footnote in Lyndon Johnson's biography made me realize I'd never asked why "blue sky" laws are called that? Kansas enacted the...

Barack Obama's excellent advice for young professionals: "[J]ust learn how to get stuff done.” Obama says that too many professionals...

To save the earth, we don’t need to change our technology — we need to change our attitude. The 2.5 billion - and growing - solar panels...

Does AI “understand,” or is understanding a uniquely biological phenomenon? With the AI hype exploding, I re-read one of the most...

Facts never cease to amaze me: Did you know the domain .io (used by many tech companies) is the official country-code domain for a group...

Worrying about things we don’t have control over, is one way of delaying decisions about things we do have control over. ————— Beware of...

There’s a concept in soccer called “good idea.” You say it when a teammate had a good idea, but executed poorly. For example, they saw...


