Q But one thing I'm just really interested in is the law school experience. Like, as you look back Do you think that it was worth your time going to law school? Do you feel like you leverage any of the ways of thinking you were taught in law school in the work you do today? Do you think it was a waste of time? What are your thoughts on that?
A I'll start with the law school part, and then I'll talk a bit about why I think right now we're sort of in this golden age of entrepreneurship. Law school taught me, at least, how to find solutions to problems. It didn't, didn't give me solutions, but it taught me how to go deep on something. One of the things that you have to do, um, at least in your first year of law school, what they call L-one, is you're given like 3000 pages to read, and you have to pull out the one legal maxim, or the, what they call the ratio desidenti, which is a legal term, excuse me, a Latin term, which is like, what is the thing? What is the lesson that this particular piece of case law teaches you? And that ability to sift through tons and tons of content, but pull out the most important piece that can be applied to other Anecdotes, or stories, or situations. That was really important. I wasn't a great writer. I went to a really great high school, public high school in the United States, called Spanish River. At the time, it was one of the best high schools in America. I didn't learn how to write very well at that school. When I went to college, went to McGill, I didn't learn how to write very well either. I mean, I was okay as a writer, but I was not nearly as well written as I needed to be. Law school taught me how to write. Law school taught me how to write concisely, how to say the thing, and sa…
AI assessment note: “Law school taught me, at least, how to find solutions to problems.”