NATE KOSTELNIK
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General
  • My 12 Problems

Law School
  • Advice to Law Students
  • How to Not Go to Law School
  • Why Do People Go to Law School?
  • Why Don't People Listen to Lawyers' Advice to Avoid Law School?

Legal Education
  • ​The Problem with the Bar Exam
  • CLE Absurdity

Lawyering
  • How to Worry More
  • The Law as Antifragile
  • The Red Queen
  • Should Lawyers Have a Billable Hour Maximum?
  • How to Switch from Litigation to Transactional Work
  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Lawyer Edition
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Leaving the Law
  • All of the Dumb Reasons Why You Can't Leave the Law
  • Via Negativa
  • How I Left the Law
  • Life is Short
  • How I Failed Spectacularly in Trying to Leave the Law
  • You Are Not Trapped
  • ​The Ultimate Guide to Leaving the Law
  • ​Sunk Costs
  • The Pendulum of Confidence and Despair
  • What Nobody Told Me About Leaving the Law
  • Why I Am Not a Recovering Lawyer
  • The Exact Template I Used to Meet People Outside the Law
  • You Don't Really Want to Make Partner

​Legal Tech
  • Zero to 0.1

​Book Reviews
  • Lawyer Forward by Mike Whelan
  • Tomorrow's Lawyers by Richard Susskind
  • The Simple Guide to Legal Innovation by Lucy Bassli
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