the simplicity vacuum.
shortcuts, schemas, and flowcharts, oh my!
🎶 Like A Star - Corinne Bailey Rae
The spring semester at Yale has begun! I remember teaching Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (syllabus) for the first time in 2020 and experiencing just the worst imposter syndrome and depression. Now, whenever I start getting down on myself about how my book is going (or not going), my uncertainties navigating social media, or how I “shouldn’t be here,” I like to think back to that time and remind myself that I made it through. Stuff like that is why I’m such a huge fan of multi-year journals like the Some Lines a Day five-year journal. I started one when I gave notice at the firm last year, and I’m really looking forward to passing that one-year mark and being able to see how Year 2 compares. (But I’m already cringing at the sad and depressing entries I know I made in Year 1.)
This week, in light of all the discour…