CURRICULUM
What Earns a Day
There is a book of 138 chapters and there is a course of ten days. They are not the same thing, and the difference is not an accident of length. The class was built to a fixed shape and the chapters were curated to fit it. Forty-three chapters earn a day. The rest stay in the book, on the record, for reasons printed below.
What a day is made of
DRAFT
Turn the first question into a full working draft. Save your choices, versions, and where AI was used in the source trace.
RUN
Turn the draft into a pass you would keep, and note what you changed and why.
REVIEW
Turn the pass into finished work. Check it against its sources, and make the final call yourself.
DELIVER
Take the finished work out to its reader. Check the sources, the file, the record of what you did, and what you keep.
LIBRARY
One workflow teaches you how to build the next. Master Mind helps you keep going.
The ten questions
One per day. If none of these lands, this is not your programme and you should not buy it.
01
Which of my delegations failed because the instruction was in my head and never on the page?
02
How many matters are open in a drawer right now that nobody ever closed, and what obligations are still running on them?
03
If our conflicts check is an email to all attorneys, what has it already missed – and would we ever find out?
04
If we ran this same audit against our own last response set, what would come back?
05
How much of what I signed off on this year did I actually read?
06
Whose number did I put in a summary I signed, without ever checking where it came from?
07
What is in my billing that would not survive being read line by line – and how long has it been there?
08
Which decisions in my firm have no named owner – and how long has that been true?
09
What did I redo last month because nobody recorded that it was already done – and who paid for that?
10
What has already left this firm that I cannot account for – and who here could tell me?
Nobody asks these in a room with an audience and a camera. That is why there is neither.
The {deliverable_title} Plan
One page that turns the first questions — where is this going, what does it have to say — into a working brief: reader, sources, constraints, done.
MADE DAY 1 · USED DAILY
14-Step Delivery Checklist
First question to delivered work, one page. The spine of days 7–10 and the Workflow Starter Kit.
STARTED DAY 7
The Lightning Log
The capture habit: every idea, dated and findable, before the thought escapes.
RUNNING ALL TEN DAYS
The Notes Page
Notes that become the source trace — who did what, and where each fact came from, written down as it happens.
EVERY SESSION
Working Vocabulary
A shared language for critique: name what the work does, not who it reminds you of.
TAUGHT DAY 1
Project Templates
Matter, naming, and handoff conventions that survive collaboration and revision.
INSTALLED DAY 3
What the room will not do
These are working rules of the classroom, published because they change what you should expect to walk out with.
1
Nothing produced in the room is treated as cleared to send. The days draft instruments; they approve nothing.
2
No client material enters the room. Every exercise runs on a supplied fixture built for the course.
3
Anything that turns on a rule leaves as a verification task, never as an answer.
4
A digest is never presented as complete. The discard log naming what could not be confirmed is part of the deliverable, not an appendix to it.
5
A register shows a conflict between sources rather than quietly picking a winner. The moment it resolves instead of showing, the whole organisation becomes unauditable.
6
No charter, route, machine, network or arrangement is described as secure, private, protected, isolated or compliant. Instruments name paths and quote terms with their version, date and author, and assert nothing about what happens to material once it leaves.
7
A corpus with the names removed is never called de-identified. Dates, intervals, places, employers, figures and quotations identify a client with every name gone.
8
Your own firm’s gaps are never put on a shared screen. Where a day presses a real document, you press yours and the record of it is yours.
9
Your own billing ledger is run privately, by you, on your own machine. The fixture is what is shared.
It was written before it was taught
All ten days were authored in full before the first cohort ran – not outlined, not sketched to be filled in from the room. That is why the fixtures exist, why the discard logs exist, and why nothing on this page had to wait for a cohort to happen before it could be printed.
Not continuing legal education. No credit, accreditation or hours are offered or implied. The subject is the business of the firm.