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If you are managing a team, and are not in 2003, and need to ask for an email summary of what each person did last week, then there is a significant problem and it’s not with the employees.

For the Nth Time, I Do Battle with the Notion of "Tested" Contract Language - Adams on Contract Drafting The Notion of “Tested” Contract Language LinkedIn is the place where dead ideas go to be endlessly reborn from their ashes, like a phoenix. One such idea is the notion that it’s risky to abandon the l...

Still looking for contracts peeps in these parts. Here's my blog post about that old chestnut, the notion that it's risky to deviate from "tested" contract language.
www.adamsdrafting.com/for-the-nth-...

NASA is an acronym, because we pronounce it “NASA”

FBI is an initialism because we pronounce it “F.B.I.”

An acronym is something that uses the first letters as a word that is pronounced.

An initialism is something that uses the first letters as something that’s said using each letter.

Watched the new Bob Dylan biopic with some friends tonight and the topic came up of who is our generation’s Dylan

The (surprising to me) consensus was Sufjan Stevens

The whole process took about three hours, and entirely consisted of giving paper printouts - of documents that they already had in digital form - to the agency that had already issued them to me.

They charged me a small fee, but I had exactly what I needed now, and went back into complete my application with the government agency, which accepted it quickly and everything was completed.

I’ve walked in and explained the situation to them, and they said yes, of course - then handed me a printout of the front of the card of every foreigner work permit.

So I had to find a shop that could print it for me.

I left and after walking around for a little while, I found a shop that advertised printing government documents for foreigners.

But because I didn’t have a printout of the front of the card (again, exactly the same as every card in the country - and a card that was issued by the same government department that was requesting it) my application was rejected

The front of the card (again, that they issued to me) is generic - it is EXACTLY the same for every work permit card in China, with exactly the same text

Think of it like the front cover of a passport that is exactly the same for everyone (pictured for reference)

The back of the card (a little plastic card the size of a credit card) has all of my information - picture, name, date of issue, etc.

I arrived and gave them the paper printout of the card (again the one they issued to me)

They rejected my application because I had only given them the scanned copy of the back of the card…

The document they needed was:

A paper printout of the scanned copy of the card (that they had issued me)

I recently renewed my work permit here

Then received a call from the government social insurance department that I need to go, in person, to give them an update about that same work permit - issued by the same government…

China has a reputation of having a big data surveillance system with an overarching system of monitoring everyone in the country

But here’s how I spent my afternoon in Shanghai:

Shanghai Snapshot - deliveries come in from trucks, and are sorted into piles and left on the sidewalk, probably thousands on this block ready for the final delivery

I imaging in other counties these would be ripe for looting, but not here

Shanghai Friendship Store, 353 Nanjing Road, c.1958-1960 (Shanghai Municipal Library)

They usually come out around Christmas because of subliminal messaging - Ballad of a Thin Man is a remake of You’re a Mean One Mr Grinch. You can’t miss that kind of IP stack and all the A-Listers want to be involved…

I remember giving a training to lawyers a decade ago that included Styles in Word, Slide Masters in PowerPoint, and Macros in Excel…

It was like they saw a magic trick - something incomprehensible that they desperately wanted but didn’t seem possible

China's Xi calls on party to 'turn knife inward' to end corruption China's Communist Party must "turn the knife inward" to eliminate problems of discipline, including corruption, President Xi Jinping said, a new call to hunt down corrupt officials and those who corrupt them.

China's Communist Party must ‘turn the knife inward’ to eliminate problems of discipline, including corruption, President Xi Jinping said, a new call to hunt down corrupt officials and those who corrupt them reut.rs/3VC5oMv

That reflects what I’ve been seeing with law firms in China - although it seems like a lot of the switch is because of market forces where transnational M&A projects have significantly decreased, leading to lower demand for foreign lawyers

Breakfast with the Asia boss of a large advertising agency: "20 years ago we employed more than 300 foreigners in China. Now it's three and I'm one of them."

They have more than a thousand employees in China.

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An (incomplete) list of actors who played Bob Dylan in movies:

Timothee Chalamet
Richard Gere
Christian Bale
Heath Ledger
Hayden Christensen
Cate Blanchett
Ben Wishaw

Is there any other person who has been played by so many A listers?

That’s sad to see, a real staple in Shanghai

Good call, looks like it’s blocked now

Bluesky now appears to be blocked in China

Images and videos don’t load in China but all of the text does