25. Use Your Computer Tools
• What Can You Automate (The Repetitive
Stuff) So You Can Do the Important Stuff?
• What Can You Communicate/Share?
• How Can You Organize Your Information
and Knowledge?
26. Lessons From The Checklist Manifesto
Value of Attention and Intention
• Why Use Your Head as a Storage
Device?
• Document a Process Well One Time,
Never Have to Document it Again
(Repurpose)
• Accept coaching and criticism
32. Giving Your Time Gives You
More Time
• Be Generous of Your Time and Your Knowledge- Without
Expecting Anything in Return
• If You Are Taking Care of Yourself, You Will Take Care
of Others
• Build Empathy and Practice Gratitude
• Get Out and Play -
http://pringlepracticeblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/in-
celebration-of-play.html
33.
34.
35. Conclusion
Which is smarter at chess – humans or computers?
Neither.
It’s the two together, working side by side.
- Clive Thompson, “Smarter Than You Think”
36. Questions?
Jack Pringle
Adams and Reese LLP
(803) 343-1270
jack.pringle@arlaw.com
@jjpringlesc
http://pringlepracticeblog.blogspot.com
1501 Main Street, 5th Floor
Columbia, SC 29201
www.adamsandreese.com
37. Resources
• Baba Shiv, How Do You Find Breakthrough Ideas?, Stanford Graduate
School of Business, http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/baba-shiv-
how-do-you-find-breakthrough-ideas
• The Resilient Lawyer http://theanxiouslawyer.com/rl-23-jack-pringle/
• Learning the Lessons of John Henry https://medium.com/the-
counselor-chronicles/learning-the-lessons-of-john-henry-
7de7f4c2b130#.iwu05e3fr
• How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could be Automated?
https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-many-of-your-daily-tasks-could-be-
automated
• Automation Potential and Wages for U.S. Jobs
https://public.tableau.com/profile/mckinsey.analytics#!/vizhome/Auto
mationandUSjobs/Technicalpotentialforautomation
38. More Resources
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande
http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better,
by Clive Thompson
http://www.amazon.com/Smarter-Than-You-Think-Technology/dp/1594204454
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D
http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-
Dweck/dp/0345472322
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, by Adam Grant
http://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Helping-Others-Success/dp/0143124986
40. Resources- Websites
ABA Law Technology Resource
Center http://www.americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/legal_technology_resources.html
Attorney at Work http://www.attorneyatwork.com/
Clio http://www.goclio.com/
Law Office Guru http://legalofficeguru.com/
Law Practice Matters http://www.lawpracticematters.com/
Lawyerist http://lawyerist.com/
Legal Ease http://legalease.blogs.com/
Legal Productivity http://www.legalproductivity.com/
MyCase http://www.mycase.com/blog/
MyShingle http://myshingle.com/
Paperless Chase http://www.paperlesschase.com/
SC Bar PMAP http://www.scbar.org/MemberResources/PracticeManagementPMAP.aspx
Technolawyer http://www.technolawyer.com/
Notas do Editor
Outsource Tasks, Not Your Attention
Mind is a Great Servant But a Terrible Master
Attorneys as Knowledge Workers
The Importance and Fragility of Attention
Some Ways to Limit Attention-Sapping Distractions
Ways to Harness Computer Power So You Can Pay Attention to the Important Stuff
We were knowledge and information workers long before we had computers to help us manage information and knowledge.
The Rules of Professional Conduct put requirements on the way attorneys manage information and knowledge well before the information age, and those requirements have not changed.
You Manage information
Collect, organize, store
Protect
keep it confidential (Rule 1.6, RPC)
keep it safe (Rule 1.15, RPC)
Review
Share/Communicate
Retain/Destroy
Apply knowledge to information to provide solutions
I would rather be safe than excited.
How many times a day do you choose what to focus on?
Maybe it’s your engine. It is not time.
Ego Depletion, Cognitive Load, Power of Habit
Fundamental attribution error
Hard not to be humble when you see the way your brain works.
The Gorilla Experiment
Notice when your cognitive shortcuts cut out too much
Omm Writer, Freedom, Leechblock. Email exacerbates the urgent to the exclusion of the important
You Need Sustained Attention
Fuel, Fallible, Finite
Technology is a (Constant) Distraction and Saps Attention
Minimize Your Beeps and Notifications (and your Interruptions and Meetings)
Guard Your Attention Jealously
Omm Writer, Freedom, Leechblock. Email exacerbates the urgent to the exclusion of the important
Technology is a Distraction, especially when you haven't figured out how to use it
Lawyers Require Sustained Attention-
Minimize Your Beeps and Notifications (and your Interruptions and Meetings)
Guard Your Attention Jealously
It’s Not What You Read, It’s What You Ignore
Information is not just sent, but has to be received.
Email- communication, powerpoint as opposed to the flipchart or whiteboard.
You have to discern what the best tool is.
Putting your trial notes in a locked file cabinet, or bury your oral argument tips in a field.
(via paper, blog, wiki, video, templates and macros, etc.)
Call it a system if you like- produce, share use, re-use improve.
Letting Yourself Be Seen)
If You Are Not Admitting Mistakes, You are Not Allowing for Improvement.
(Everybody Bombs)
Yes And . . .
Benefits:
Delegates (Efficiency)
Reduces Mistakes (Effectiveness, Efficiency)
Promotes and standardizes best practices (Process Improvement)
Stays with the organization (Knowledge Management)
Encourages revision and improvement (Productivity)
Capable of application in other areas (Innovation)
Rewards input (Collaboration)
Can you accept some criticism, share some credit, and allow for some mistakes?
Courage to Change) take risks, be seen, tell your own story.
(Best Measure of Courage is Vulnerability)- (You might as well show yourself, because people are going to form opinions of you anyway).
Shame can’t survive emphathy: (Shame Needs Three Things: secrecy, silence, judgment)
Be seen
Are You Trying to Get Better from a Good Place, or Trying to Fill a Hole?
I am really good, but I can be better v. I am flawed and I need to prove myself
If you are enough, and want to improve, that is different from always needing affirmation from others.
(Perfectionism is the 20-ton shield)- you can't be seen.
Being Here or Living for the Future
Curiosity and Being a Lifelong Learner
Listening
(Put Your Own Mask on) (When You notice Things about yourself, you notice things about others) (opposite of projection).
Shame can’t survive emphathy: (Shame Needs Three Things: secrecy, silence, judgment)
Be seen
If I am going to fall prey to cliches, I will choose these.
Practice management: project management, process improvement, change management