Lessons from the Great Conversation – Cicero Part II

by Keith Lee | Great Conversation

And yet he often desired his friends not to call him orator, but philosopher, because he had made philosophy his business, and had only used rhetoric as an instrument for attaining his objects in public life. But the desire of glory has great power in washing the...

Postcards from the Bar Exam – Ithaca Law Grad, 1988

by Keith Lee | Law School

Carolyn Elefant, of My Shingle fame, recently came across her musings about taking the bar exam after graduating from Ithaca in 1988 and I volunteered to post them here at An Associate’s Mind. The thoughts and ideas contained in these postcards remain as true today as...

Express Gratitude and Reap the Rewards

by Keith Lee | Business

Entry-Level Rebel recently had a post titled 3 Ways to End Your Week on a Positive Note. The recommendations are as follows: Express gratitude for those that went out of their way to help you this week. Note your three greatest accomplishments over the past week. List...

Answer: No.

by Keith Lee | Social Media

Will social media kill e-mail? This posts mirrors what has always been my impression of people who think social media/twitter/FB are going to replace e-mail based upon the trending use of the sub-twenty-something set  – they don’t know what they’re...

Lessons from the Great Conversation

by Keith Lee | Great Conversation

“But the greatest credit which Drusus got for kindness and justice towards the people was, that he never seemed to propose any law for his own advantage; he committed the charge of seeing the colonies rightly settled to other commissioners…”...

The Irrelevance of the Traditional Media

by Keith Lee | Social Media

Zero Hedge recently had an entry on the complete irrelevance of traditional media in the modern world. I’m not certain if traditional/mainstream media is completely irrelevant (I love The Economist), however there are increasingly larger cracks in the...