Do you remember the classic TV show The Twilight Zone? There was one episode in particular that I think about some time. There was a soldier that suddenly noticed time had stopped, for everybody but him. He walked around and there were people outside frozen in time. Everything was standing perfectly still. Waking up early…
It was five years ago last month: I was visiting Minneapolis for the first time and I had just taken the train in from the airport to save money. I headed up to one of the top floors in one of the biggest buildings in the city and walked into my very first meeting with…
Let’s face it, lawyers aren’t like other business people. There is a very simple reason for this, most business people are in business because they either like business or have an aptitude for business. Lawyers are different, they are lawyers because they attended law school and are very good at a certain type of thinking…
This past weekend I started a discussion online that became my most commented-on discussion of all time. I received 83 total comments. Was it because I made some brilliant observations? Perhaps I asked the key question that lawyers everywhere were dying to know that answer to? No, it wasn’t any of that. It was more…
In Robert Ambrogi’s latest blog post entitled “Pseudo Social Sharing Isn’t Smart, It’s Spam” he accuses me of creating software that prompts lawyers to spam their contacts. It isn’t true Bob, so let me have a chance to set the record straight. I’d like to start by clearing up one major misunderstanding. Just because the software makes it…
Five years ago I launched the first social media consultancy dedicated to the legal profession. I had one big question, should my company be the Adrian Dayton Company or some other clever name? I went back and forth on this point and asked some of my top Twitter friends like Gini Dietrich and Julio Varela…
This morning my son asked, “Mom, can you write me a list of everything that bugs eat?” He’s only six, so he didn’t realize he was asking for a pretty long list. But his head was in the right place, he wanted to make sure that what he put in the jam jar with holes…