About “Everything In Between”
“Everything In Between” is about the institutions, communities, practices, and technologies that glue us together, drive us apart, and create a massive layer of the "in between" - between us as human beings and whatever it is that we want and wherever it is that we want to be.
It is sometimes about law, sometimes about education, sometimes about economics, sometimes about history, sometimes about cities, sometimes about popular culture. Sports. Journalism. Leadership and management. Economic development. Technology. Artificial Intelligence! Maybe … how these things go together. Or should. Or don’t. I live on the edge of the old “Ginsu knives” TV commercials: There’s more!
What knits these things together? How do they align in my own mind, and what may be interesting enough for readers to follow along?
This: I started my career in San Francisco and Silicon Valley as a practicing lawyer in the 1980s and 1990s - around the time that the Santa Clara Valley, where I grew up, was becoming “Silicon Valley.” A legacy engineering culture was transitioning awkwardly into an entrepreneurship-and-finance culture. I moved to Pittsburgh more than 25 years ago to become a full-time law professor, and I discovered an entirely different community struggling with a new identity.
My early focus on intellectual property law and what was then called “cyberlaw” drew me into research and conversations about governance and institutions of all sorts. What works when “we” get together, and what doesn’t? What happens when what works … changes, for one reason or another? Is there anything that “we” might do to steer the change, for the better (one hopes) or for the worse?
That’s where “Everything” is “In Between.”
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