Nov 30, 2021

St. Louis estate planning attorney Joe O'Keefe had some questions about optimizing his practice to be more paperless. In listening to this discussion, you'll learn about why you might want to use a digital document management system, and which one is best for lawyers. And many other aspects of being paperless...

Nov 23, 2021

In the last episode, we talked about how mental models are helpful for simplifying our complex world to make it more understandable. Now let's delve deeper.  

We'll discuss different types of mental models, focusing on ones that attorney/businessman Charlie Munger believes are the most important for achieving the...

Nov 16, 2021

It's often hard to understand our complex tech-driven world. That's why we need "mental models" to simplify the complex and make it more understandable.

Charlie Munger is a famously successful lawyer who popularized the idea of using mental models. In this episode, Ernie explores how lawyers can use this tool to "make...

Nov 9, 2021

To attract better clients you need to give greater assurance that you're someone they'd feel comfortable working with. Or even better that they yearn to work with.

The best tool for doing this is your biography, but not via the usual "obituary style" litany of accomplishments. Rather, you need to tell the story of who...

Nov 2, 2021

We need to be constantly mindful of what we're working on because it's easy for important work to slip through the cracks, figuratively speaking.

The best way to do this is to make our work visible. Not literally, but figuratively. The thing to keep in mind is that our knowledge work is mostly mental and therefore not...