Not sure I've been this bored of my life in a long time.

Need a new mission to work on--one where I can actually make an impact that I can see.

The stuff I find interesting in cryptolaw is reserved for people who buy into secret lobbying orgs, trade associations, etc.

I feel most happy when being creative.

The problem with law is that lawyers are very egotistical; there is no open-source culture.

Devs are happy to use each other's stuff b/c it saves time/energy; lawyers are the opposite.

For the past three years I have been "building" innovative cryptolaw legos, frameworks, etc., that I think are at least extremely fruitful starting points--no one uses them, so it is very frustrating. And every day I see some new crappy crypto legislation that ignores my work.

And it's not only me--I also see useful things from other lawyers that other lawyers disregard and don't use, egotistically preferring their own solutions.

Basically, trying to be a creative and collaborative lawyer sucks.

We have a venture-backed organization called "OpenLaw" that started "The LAO" and guards the legal agreements for it like they are crown jewel trade secrets while asking other lawyers to contribute legal forms to its platform for free. This is what lawyers are like.

Let me shill a few things here (not mine):

1. https://commonform.org/  @CommonForm -- if you are doing an NDA, why don't you start with waypoint? if you need changes, why don't you do a PR suggesting them?

2. https://github.com/Ro5s  @r_ross_campbell has like a million legal contracts and smart contracts on github, hard to keep it up with it all but people should probably start paying attention and trying to build on it

3. https://github.com/CooleyLLP/seriesseed, the series seed docs for one of the top emerging companies law firms in the world has been sitting on github for 8 years, no one other than cooley's innovation practice leader contributes

I'm sure there are many other such things--I'm not the best at building off others' work either. But it's pretty much like amazingly awful how backward and zero-sum-oriented law is, & some people need to start moving the needle or we're fucked.

If you are a lawyer there is one cool thing you can do today:

1. take w/e document you are better at than nearly everybody else

2. strip out the client data

3. post it on github and tweet about why it's good

not that hard

Imagine the millions of dollars in intellectual capital that is just sitting on law firm doc management systems, doing nothing. When a similar client and lawyer have a similar need, they start from scratch instead of leveraging the existing wisdom. Just really stupid/wasteful.