The phrase ‘data is the new oil’ is an interesting one. Apparently first coined by Clive Humby (the ‘humby‘ of Dunhumby) in 2006 – it’s a neat sounding metaphor you won’t ever be far from someone offering if discussing the use, value or processing of the data industry. I want to try to provide a […]
image courtesy of stable diffusion (image prompt: “history of computing as a story of time and space in the style of dali”) We were asked to write the ‘computing and cloud computing’ chapter of an upcoming OUP book on FinTech law, and I was asked to write the ‘history of computing’ section (with a 2,000 […]
I was recently asked what I would suggest reading to ‘get into’ legal tech. It’s a good question – but I think slightly wrong-headed. You’ll ‘get into’ legal tech by ‘doing’ it not by reading it. Books are great (shoulders of giants, etc.), but where the aim is to do a thing, there’s no substitute […]
Lots of recent conversations have made me think it would be helpful to collect my thoughts on how to ‘get into legal tech’. I think some context is needed though before we get to ‘how’ part of this: what do I mean by legal tech; why get into legal tech; what do people doing legal […]
One of my favourite interview questions is to ask people how they stay up to date. I have never heard what I consider a good answer. Smart, successful, well educated, people – but it seems they have a poor information diet. I am setting out my approach this to try to help people improve here […]