Reviewing legal documents
My edit: "We will do [x] as needed."
Lawyer's edit: "We will do [x] every y weeks."
Because humans all have different perceptions of what "as needed" means and no one wants stupid lawsuits. Thinking on how to be clear while stating intentions. 
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Disagreements don't always come from places of bad faith-- sometimes nasty disagreements come from having two very different definitions of the same phrase. I tend to think I don't need strict legal documents with people I trust. But that is not the case. Clarity is always good.
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Replying to @sehurlburt
Interestingly, when my lawyers were doing contract writing, objective SLAs w/r/t our obligations were usually the expensive option. The cheaper option was language like “We will make commercially reasonable efforts to...”
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You know you’re in the cheap seats when your counterparty owns their own goal setting, metric selection, and determination of whether they’ve hit the metric, but there do exist businesses that want the cheap seats. (Metaphorically; lawyers = $10k+ ACV on table.)
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I personally feel a bit uncomfortable with that language-- I either want no guarantees or defined guarantees, you know? Maybe as I feel out how the relationship goes I can get more comfortable with the haziness.
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Yep! Lots of context here, and one of the great things about business is that willing counterparties can square off and everyone arrives at a point of mutual comfort even though most contracts wouldn’t be comfortable to them. There are places I wouldn’t do it, either.
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