TechLawAdvisor
I started posting to techlawadvisor.com as a first year associate at a boutique Manhattan intellectual property firm on August 15, 2002. The first post was related to a case that our firm had tried before Judge Mukasey in the SDNY. I was going to follow the Judge’s lead and seek the humor in the intellectual property law world. Too soon I began rallying against all that was wrong with copyright and trademark in America. Lol. Before long I was obsessed with being the first to post on every new case, I was like the rat in the cage, seeking that next nugget and never satisfied once I had received it. I spent 45 solid months in this mode before I realized I was derailing. Taken to extremes, I set about fixing this by shunning everything I had accomplished up to this point, all the readers I had develped, all the google love I had created and the network of contacts I was figuring out how to develop. I tried to go back to posting 8 months later but I had missed out on what I considered a very important time period in the development of the form and quit again. I had encouragement from other along the way but never was able to regain the humor and enjoyment. 9 years later, I want to post again and engage and communicate. But this time it will be different. We’ll see.