A contract should read like instructions for building furniture – or an aircraft carrier
This week’s musings on tech contracts … Here’s a proposition: we should NOT seek shorter or simpler contracts where those goals contradict our higher priority: CLARITY. Brevity, simplicity, and clarity overlap, but they’re not the same. Clarity does often lead to shorter and simpler contracts. In fact, good writing itself leads to shorter and simpler […]
August 13 LinkedIn Live: Legalese and Complexity
We hear that contracts should be clear and brief. We also see the opposite: baffling, medieval-sounding language, reading like a charter from the king. What’s the best path? Your contract doesn’t need to be pretty. It’s the source code for a deal: a technical, sometimes intricate guide. On top of all that, you need language […]