Dominik’s Blog

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Over at Subtraction, whose design I find very appealing, Khoi Vinh muses on magazines, asking “does anybody read them anymore?“ The following post germinated as a comment, but I realized it would also make an interesting blog entry… so here it is:

Subscription wise, I only have two magazines/journals that I read cover to cover each issue: The Economist and First Things. Design wise, First Things leaves something to be desired, at least in print, but I find the content enjoyable. Recently I’ve taken to reading most of their articles online, since I actually prefer their website’s layout to their print copy.

The Economist has a tasteful design, which makes it pleasure to sit down and read through it — though here also, I find myself reading about 50% of the articles on their website, which was redesigned a year ago and “clicks” very well with what I perceive as the magazine’s image. I’m no expert in the grid system, but I think I detect some elegant use of it on economist.com — everything seems ordered, elegant, precisely in its place. I’ve recently also tried their new podcast, which is the entire text of the magazine read by professional (British) actors, free for download each week for subscribers. I was positively impressed, but I don’t spend so much time commuting (thankfully) that I can listen to an entire magazine. Still, it’s nice for listening to several articles on the morning and even commute, and positively great for any weekend excursions.

A notable feature of First Things and the Economist is that both are crammed with text and any illustrations or photos are tastefully added as accents, not the main focus. I read TIME when I was 11, and enjoyed it then, but now when I look at it I’m amazed at how little actual information is presented in the articles. They’re just … too short.

As for newspapers, at 23, I never really have gotten into them. I find paper newspaper far too unwieldy and I hate getting newsprint on my hands — they’re just too big to read comfortably without putting them down on a table, and I prefer to do my reading on the couch. I do visit online newspapers though and I like the NYT’s new design a lot — it’s very elegant. Most other newspapers I only visit sporadically whenever Google News brings up an article of theirs.

Find yourself needing to keep track of information from various websites?

Google Notebook to the rescue. With its new Firefox plug-in, you can select text from a web page, click it, click Clip and then put it into an appropriate notebook. It’ll automatically record the URL you found it from and clip the selected text into a new entry, preserving the information in one organized place.

Use it for research or just to keep track of interesting things you’ve read on the web.

I personally am experimenting with using it as a rough and tumble to do list, an annotated bookmark list and a research helper. For example: instead of just bookmarking a page in Firefox, I highlight what I find interesting and then Clip it into Google Notebook; then later, when I’m browsing my bookmarks notebook for a particular topic, I can quickly see why I bookmarked that page, and, if needed, can back to the page in a single click. And finally, as an added bonus, Google Notebook is accessible from any machine with a web browser and internet access.

If you’re gearing up for law school and thinking about a program to take notes with, look no further than Microsoft OneNote — it has great tools to organize your case briefs and in-class notes with its innovative tabs, and its intelligent typing awareness makes it a breeze to format paragraphs and lists painlessly. I used it with pleasure last semester and found it to be quite helpful! Note: I’ve linked the Student Edition which has all the same functionality but is cheaper, albeit with a license restriction that you can use it only for personal or educational use.
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Type dominik into Google and dominik.net is the first hit :)

It’s actually been that way for several years, without any real effort on my part aside from making and maintaining this website; I suppose I have an advantage from this site being around since 1999 as well as having a rare name with a relatively rare spelling.

If this site weren’t the first hit on Google for ‘dominik’, it wouldn’t really be worth the effort to try to make it so, since this is just my personal website, with some poetry, photos, a Japan travelogue and this very blog.

Incidentally, that’s also the point of Seth Godin’s new book, The Dip. Seth Godin, a master marketer, argues that most things worth doing in life will start out easy, then get difficult and then, only if you persist through this difficult period — he calls it the Dip — then things get really good. For example, you might call the first year of law school the Dip of law school — it’s generally agreed that the first year is the toughest, because it’s meant as a filter. The bar exam is another dip.

I had the fortune of being able to see Seth talk in person yesterday in Ann Arbor, and his talk was excellent, entertaining and educational. I even managed to snag the last question, asking:
“How do you find ‘your best’? In other words, how do you pick the dip you want to overcome?”

I asked this question because it’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about; I have this set of interests and passions, and then I have the real world. The trick of building a career, at least as I in my rather inexperienced perspective see it, is to pick the right set of interests and passions and put them into a job that lets you be the best in the world at what you do. This means best in the world in the opinion of the market that you’re in, since that’s the only market that matters. Example: In the market of the Democratic primary, only open to registered Democrats, does it matter what a Republican voter thinks? Answer: No.

This lesson can even be applied to family life. If you’re a husband or a father, your goal is to the best husband and father in the market that matters. But what’s the market that matters? Your wife and children. The Dips of marriage and parenting, of which there are doubtless many over the years, if surmounted, will lead to a rewarding marriage and family life.

The final, important point, is that some processes in life don’t have Dips. They just have flat Cul-de-sacs, dead ends leading nowhere. The key is not sticking to those pointless plateaus but rather quitting them and seeking out the right Dips.

But how does one find the right Dip? This was exactly my question to Seth yesterday.

His answer: Basically there are three factors that can help you determine whether a Dip is worth pursuing.

1. Are you excited about the field the Dip is in?
2. Is this size right? In other words, can you get through the Dip with your current resources and abilities? Or there other, preliminary Dips that you need to conquer first? (E.g. If you want to be a lawyer, you need go to law school before taking the bar exam).
3. Is it worth it? So you conquer the Dip and are now on the other side. Was it worth all that effort?

In terms of dominik.net being the first hit on Google for dominik, I’ve already surmounted that Dip. But the Dip was tiny, since dominik is a rare spelling of a rare name. It was exciting, and it was worth the effort, since there wasn’t any effort I wouldn’t have done anyway (building my website).

Micro summary: Pick the right Dip, stick through it, and win! Quit pointless plateus (Cul-De-Sacs) to invest more time into sticking with your picked Dips.

For more, you can read Seth’s The Dip Blog, which has many illustrative stories as well as book excerpts. And of course, you can go read the book! I highly recommend it :)

Finally, I’ll link some images from the book to illustrate these points:

And you can buy the book on Amazon. Currently it’s $7.77:

Three down with two to go, I’m now in the home stretch.

The weather outside has gone from gray and drab to bright, green and sunny. Summer has arrived on Winter’s heels. Spring apparently an afterthought…

I’m looking forward to finishing up my first year of law school within just a few days. It really feels as if it has flown by, but I can honestly say that I’ve learned a lot, both substantively and procedurally (so as to learn more better).

Here’s a photo which I think captures this feeling of greenery and summertime blossom:

Appellate briefs, oral arguments, exams looming just three weeks away…

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An amusing interlude led to a flurry of quotes in today’s Torts.

A choice selection:

[immediately after asking a student a question, his cell phone rings]
“I don’t mean to shut you down, but I have a phone call.”

“It’s Professor P. — it’s all about him — I think he’d love for me to have a conversation in front of the class.”

[Professor P. calls back]
“Hi, You’re on the speakerphone in front of my class.”
“Seriously?”
“Yeah”
“Let me call you back.”

“I don’t know to actually turn my phone off — I haven’t read the manual”

Student: “Even good marriages have their moments…”
“…When you’d want to sue the hell out of your wife.”

And one from yesterday:
[after taking a poll and finding no one disagreed with contributory negligence for failure to take precautions (e.g. not wearing a helmet on a motorcycle and then getting into a crash)]
“You’re the herd, you’ve been conditioned.”