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Learn the notes (so you can forget all about them)
I was in my teens when I first watched the film Shine, which tells the story of David Helfgott, the virtuoso pianist and child prodigy. A chunk of the film follows Helfgott as he works to master Rachmaninov’s 3rd piano concerto for a competition while studying at the Royal College of Music in London. (Here’s…
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Short — Relevant — Fair
If you’re reading this, you’re probably familiar with lots of the accusations thrown at contracts: And so on. Inevitably then, you’ll regularly hear that contracts should be made shorter, more relevant and more balanced. Cheers to all that (it’s what I do for a living after all). In practice, these aspirations can sometimes pull in…