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Update: As noted below, the redesigned blog should be up at some point Tuesday, perhaps late – a new post will follow thereafter.  If it’s Tuesday and you’re seeing this blog post and the old design first, it’s coming later in the day. Promise.   Every good superhero story needs an origin story.  I’m not a superhero but I’ve got a super origin story to tell. Not a Daredevil You may have heard it before, but humor me. I’m turning 10. You see it was ten years ago, in a hotel conference room in where my life changed. Of course, like lots of such “a-ha” moments that people have, I didn’t realize it at the time. (Pause here to acknowledge that there are plenty of moments you know are going to be big: kids, marriages, your first iPhone). I was at the Spring Conference for the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division in, of all places, Canada.  Montreal, to be specific. But I woke up early, on a fe...

For well over a decade, my first post each year has been a prediction about what the upcoming year will bring in employment. (The less said about my 2019 prediction to dust off the reduction-in-force guidance, the better.) But there was a year when I didn’t make a prediction 2010 (except that I went “out of my way” to predict that we would not make contact with aliens. You need to read the post.) So, another decade has gone by and yet I’ve still gone back to that post because it still seems meaningful 10 years later.   In it, I quoted from creator of LexBlog, Kevin O’Keefe — the blogging platform that this has been written on. I’m going to take a page out of Kevin O’Keefe’s recent post entitled “Why Predict the Future When You Can Make It?” In it he repeats an oft-reminded, yet seldom followed, expression: The Future is What You Make Of It.  As he said: “ Good luck in 2010. But remember luck is the re...