March 23, 2006
Tag-Team (Nailed Twice!)
Having been tagged by both David Maister and Robert Millard, the handwriting is on the wall: I can't hide, and I've never been one to run. So you are about to experience an extraordinarily atypical entry on "Adam Smith, Esq.," which is not now, and never has been, about me.
Four jobs I've had:
- caddy (one summer)
- research assistant (as a 3L) to constitutional law professor Paul Brest, later Dean of Stanford Law School
- founder and CEO of a dot-com (intended to bring the Fortune 1000 and the AmLaw 200 together for spontaneous and serendipitous "expertise discovery"—essentially meant as a massive online legal KM application)
- strategic and economic consultant to law firms
Four movies I can watch over and over
- The Godfather (I, II, & III)
- Star Wars
- The Hunt for Red October
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
Four TV shows I love to watch
- The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS)
- Charlie Rose (if and only if he's not interviewing movie celebrities)
- Monday Night Football
- NOVA
Four places I’ve been on vacation
- Bologna/Milan/Rome/Venice
- Florence/Siena/Assisi/Ravello
- Positano/Capri/Amalfi/Ravenna
- Palermo/Agrigento/Erice/Catania/Siracusa
Yes, you detect a pattern.
Four tunes that play through my head
- The Siegfried Idyll from Wagner's Ring Cycle
- Le Donne e Mobile from Verdi's Rigoletto
- "Private Dancer," Tina Turner
- "London Calling," The Clash
Four favorite dishes
- cheese, olives, bread, red wine: the Four Major Food Groups
- risotto
- home-made parmesan/rosemary/sun-dried tomato focaccia
- inky black coffee and an honest-to-God New York bagel with nova and a schmear
Four books I really love
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
- Harry Potter: All of it
- [An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of] The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (yes, seriously)
Four places I’d rather be
- London, Hong Kong, or Rome
- Running a full loop of Central Park
- Most any world-class university town: Ann Arbor, Cambridge, Palo Alto, Princeton
- Seated in the third row, center, of the balcony of the Metropolitan Opera as the house lights go down
But seriously, David M. nailed it: Home on the Upper West Side.
Four bloggers I’m tagging
And there you have this most out-of-the-ordinary entry on "Adam Smith, Esq."
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