This in a tweet is why I'd generally suggest that one aim for neutral good rather than lawful good with respect to business.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1201560813242331136 …
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Similar example: *writes email* Counterparty: "We need an official statement from your company about this." *copies email to PDF file, enters header Official Statement From Company* Counterparty: "Cool."
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Another extremely common example of strategic ambiguity is "What is your address?", where I often got *very* poindextery about "OK so exactly what do you need there?", because some of my addresses were e.g. in Japan and some were not, which sometimes had consequences.
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e.g. "Oh we need the address of your main place of business." Me: "Presumably you're OK with the mailroom?" "Sure." *writes down the PO Box in Chicago not the office in Tokyo*
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(The one time this was extremely not OK was for an insurance company, which needs actual physical addresses for underwriting, but was willing to underwrite the mailroom for risk of fire and then add an additional office in Japan for no additional charge as a courtesy.)
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Which, n.b., required asking three carriers (through a broker) "Will you write the policy to include claims incurred at our location in Tokyo in addition to the location listed on the application?" Warren Buffett [0] was like "Sure, that's a thing we do." [0] USLI
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Commendable dedication to legal requirements, process and thorough record-keeping, really.
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