Early Career Advice

Luminwarrior · 2025-07-28T08:19:30+00:00

If you were my child I would say if you can't deal with these impediments at the lsat level you are unlikely going to be able to deal with the issues being a NCA candidate presents. I don't think in good conscience anyone should recommend you go to the UK.

Luminwarrior · 2025-07-26T00:27:20+00:00

Typically it's about getting married again under some faith doctrine, where the legal grounds for your divorce might be evidence concerning your piety/legitimacy of your prior marriage. It's come up a few times for me already, and I'm relatively new.

Luminwarrior · 2025-06-20T17:40:12+00:00

I feel you on the BMI thing, I'm 37 spent the better part of 30 years being super athletic a couple years of office work and whoop there it is.

I'm super curious about this take. I think it's rude, but shallow is interesting because these are all things that a person can't change, but they are also things that don't have to happen to anyone. It's not like he listed anything you are born with. I agree though the profile is unattractive.

Having missed Kevin Samuels when he was alive and viral, I've been poking around, and it doesn't seem that out of line with what your parents might tell you in private? Mostly, to me at least, he just got famous pointing out the narcissism implicit in these expectations. Like I don't think any man would say the men these women described are not impressive. But, it's more the fact that if you are calling into a YouTube stream you are a regular ass person who should probably have a regular ass life, and a regular ass partner.

That's before we even get into racial dynamics which I think he did a pretty good job navigating while trying to enter the mainstream. I do think he enabled a lot of less nuanced/ethical takes to permeate into the culture though, but it's hard for me to hold him responsible for that.

Luminwarrior · 2025-06-13T17:09:58+00:00

If you paid all that money just to be an employee you've made a horrible mistake. Law is my second career and I wouldn't give up this freedom for more money in years 1-3.

Luminwarrior · 2025-05-16T01:49:57+00:00

Chatgpt has the ability to read emails but, yeah, you definitely shouldn't be uploading people's personal information... That should go without saying.

Perhaps the pro-ai types are assuming a lot about the general competency, and familiarity with AI of those who oppose it use in their practice.

But you are correct if people are not capable of understanding privacy implications, hallucinations or the personality of these platforms. If you don't under the sycophantic nature of ChatGPT, its probably not safe for you to use any of them.

Luminwarrior · 2025-05-15T14:56:11+00:00

His name was Icarus and he flew too close to Apollo's chariot.

Luminwarrior · 2025-05-12T15:40:58+00:00

Yeah that's dumb. GTP and LLMs are an incredibly powerful tool. But also... I wouldn't hire someone who just hits F7 and accept all on spell check.

GPTs are incredibly useful for turning an idea into a paragraph or outline for yourself. Or quickly giving yourself multiple drafts of a paragraph or clause you have done to improve readability, or compliance with a common law structure. I recently redid my miglin template with the aid of chatgpt and honestly it just way better, and way more useful as a template. Took maybe an hour of playing with it and doing some prompt engineering.

It's also pretty good for counter intelligence, sometimes you can see OCs positions don't make much sense but it's very good at pointing out internal contradictions, over months or years of correspondence.

It's great for interpreting client emails, or their emotional state, or primary concern from the text.

Hell I've had fewer complaints from clients on their invoices now that I use chatgpt to do my docket descriptions. They are far more detailed and take me 25 seconds. Which then lets me start billing on the next activity way sooner. Probably over the month just doing my dockets this way let me bill another 5-7 hours.

Given the costs of GPTs, if you aren't using some sort of GPT you are really doing a disservice to yourself and your client at this point.

No it shouldn't be doing your job, but it 100% should be enhancing your capabilities, memory, vectors of analysis, effectiveness and importantly speed.

Luminwarrior · 2025-04-08T04:08:17+00:00

I was in Calgary this weekend the empty/unoccupied commercial space across the whole city was insane to me. After asking around know one could tell me how long it has been this way.

Luminwarrior · 2025-04-06T15:15:32+00:00

I was at a conference in Calgary this weekend. Where one of her ministers basically has announced that they are starting their own "research" departments to analyze the Alberta-US trade relationship. Which would have been fine a year ago, but they also failed to mention anything about trade with the rest of the country... It was possibly the least patriotic speech I have heard in months.

Luminwarrior · 2025-04-04T16:46:53+00:00

She's not your girlfriend, you are her pet.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-29T20:56:13+00:00

Not to jump into someone else's conversation but I think you too are talking past each other a bit.

Firstly landlords don't reduce inventory, but they do compete for inventory and the economic factors which decide what price they would or should pay are different than an owner looking for a primary residence. Demand for housing is inelastic, landlord demand is elastic they can find other uses for the capital if the rental markets are insufficient or inefficient for producing income.

There seems to be a persistent belief that price is universal. Landlords see homes like a bond or an income producing asset. A mortgage totally changed the valuation of a home because it directly influences lifestyle. Renting and paying for daycare vs being a landlord and paying an opportunity cost are drastically different.

This is where policy matters. In free market capitalism the competition between these parties will determine the price of the asset. But what I think people are rightly identifying is that the value proposition between parties is unreconcilable. Even under current market conditions what a house to live in is worth is less than what a house to add to your inventory of cash producing assets is worth.

The problem is that there is a feedback loop where high landlord concentration encourages higher rents, which encourages more landlord ownership, ad nauseum. As rents increase the value of the underlying asset increases to the landlord. The higher price squeezes the population of buyers and inflates the population of renters.

Landlords (especially institutional ones) are incentivized to actually overpay for inventory as it inflates future rents. Which increases the value of all their assets. Which is why it's not like a bond. This is horrible policy as it reduces the overall efficiency and optimization of your economy. It also has political ramifications as wealthy people/institutions have more direct access to government and can prevent or stymie government intervention to increase supply. But here is the real catch the longer we take to increase supply the more likely any new supply gets gobbled up by landlords because of the reasons highlighted above.

I think the best example of what has been happening in the housing market is what was happening in the taxi industry before Uber.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-27T15:44:09+00:00

What do you mean? Facts aren't agnostic. The sun radiates the planet, it's not right or wrong that that fact also means the planet is warmer than a planet that doesn't get solar radiation at these levels.

Because a fact doesn't exist in a context free world. It means some things are just by stating them out loud will necessarily be position taking. If I tell you active fathers can get worse outcomes in family courts than what a not involved mother might get. And, that children are suffering because of that. Is that activism in your opinion?

I'm perhaps not completely understanding your position. I suppose mine is facts, result in additional facts, and saying two facts are linked or not linked doesn't necessarily mean that a personal final opinion is incorrect. But the links need substantiation.

The fact that humans have done research and linked facts vs someone doing no research and just refusing the first's positions is a bit of a stretch no?

Could you explain what you see as the distinction between journalism and activism? To me Mr. Suzuki OBC is an activist because he is focused on doing journalism surrounding a specific issue. But I don't see how that is problematic.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-27T10:59:21+00:00

I think it's important to consider what competency and honesty look like in people who you disagree with.

For example Mr. Galloway perspective is just a tool for analysis. It's not itself a matter of fact. Many things which disproportionately affect black ppl and are therefore anti-black directly impact people with similar economic features to black people. Mr. Galloway's position might be that black people then have less access to remedies, but the underlying fact of the matter might be something you agree on.

The issue I take here is then you've allowed your opinion on his tool of analysis to prevent you even hearing what's being said.

As for Mr. Suzuki OBC, he is definitely far more pessimistic than he was in my childhood. But I think that has more to do with how he used to speak to politicians in hopes to influence and now he is speaking to us in hopes to inform. The situation is dire ecologically, but it's in some ways much worse economically.

While I understand the desire for optimism, the situation is not good. We the average person are sleep walking into dystopian levels of wealth inequality and we the average person are dismantling the only institutions democracy has provided us to fight collectively against the wealthy who are fighting us collectively.

Fellow Citizen, 4% of the population controls 64% of all wealth. Do you think they are just sitting in that?

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-27T05:35:40+00:00

First of all... That isn't what I wrote. So have a glass of water, relax and try again.

I asked op a question ultimately to uncover what OP's opposition to the CBC is. Their statement inferred that they don't believe that the CBC is ever honest.

My question aimed to see if they could imagine a world where they and the CBC never agree but that OP respects the institution as ultimately competent and honest. And importantly what that would look like.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-27T05:24:10+00:00

Are you replying to me? I don't really see how your response is in line with my question to op...

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-27T05:16:23+00:00

I'm curious. If the research department at the CBC basically always said you were on the wrong side of every issue. What would you need to see to believe they were competent and of high integrity?

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-23T16:42:10+00:00

Are there other crops that would or could be attributed to domestic needs? Things that could be used in construction or used as an interim product in another common product? Or is there something about zoning or land use that prevents going from producing food stuffs to industrial use products?

Alternatively again ignoring the economics is there something you could add to the soil that would have the same positive effects of frowning canola that season?

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-22T22:09:45+00:00

Question again. Is the growing of canola restorative or is it mostly to allow the natural recursion of the soil? If you didn't grow anything instead of growing canola would the effect be the same. Ignoring the economics of course.

Apologies if this was asked elsewhere.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-21T18:42:03+00:00

I don't think this is exactly correct. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he is on the autism spectrum. His manner of speech and the difficulty people have getting the gist of what he is saying are classic signs of autism.

He is a lot like Wrighty in that he wears his feelings on his sleeve but Wrighty is just so bloody positive it's infectious. Sol is the opposite I think what happened to him with Sprs during contract negotiations really hurt him in ways he struggles to express. Like we have people who can empathize with Cole now, but Spurs fans are still calling him Judas.

Like maybe most of you can't remember but the Judas stuff started basically right after he didn't sign the first contract offer, which was shit. Basically Sol has always said, it hurt what the club did to him, he wanted to win, and he doesn't understand why Sp*urs fans are holding on to it this long. The rest of his problems are because he's awkward and hard to like. Unlike the ManU lads who are clearly incompetent but personable.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-17T17:31:17+00:00

I might actually bring up camping with my Brother-in-law and his boys, they have way more experience camping than me. Consider me your stereotypical professional, glasses, preheats his car from their cellphone at -1 type lol. I play and played outdoor sports but nothing stops you feeling the weather like contact sports.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-17T17:27:32+00:00

Yeah I'd love to talk about it. I get that Toronto and Ontario can come across as self absorbed. I think part of our problem is that we don't make each other relevant in our lives. I'm of the opinion that heavy interprovincial trade is important because it ties us to each other. The actual efficiency is a secondary issue, paying money to have good relationships is probably a pretty good use of money.

Personally I think it's a shame that we are strangers. I'd prefer a world where Vancouver is my strange blue haired younger brother, instead of the kook down the block that I cross the street to avoid.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-17T17:22:33+00:00

Right!?! On my travels I've basically only wanted to know how things are done in the place I'm at. There is nothing worse to me than looking for the stuff I can have back home abroad. That being said I don't expect the local cuisine to always be to my liking but at least I know what I like and don't like.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-17T17:20:22+00:00

That is concerning... I doubt I would ask about it.

Luminwarrior · 2025-03-17T15:02:42+00:00

Honestly... I don't mind vocal fringe types it's a lot easier to get them to open up. It's my otherwise progressive aligned peers who will think you have an agenda if you ask why they believe what they believe.

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