Why I should be a lawyer, but choose not to be™

The cross-examination mind, the record-reading, the argument built to hold; by every measure the curator has the makings of a lawyer, and chooses to stay outside the bar on purpose. The reason is the whole house: a lawyer serves the client, inside the system's rules; this house serves the record, and judges the system itself. From outside the guild you can do what a member can't; quote and parody the law freely (the fair-use edge), call the citation that decided nothing (Meta the Cite), name arbitration a binding lie, and argue for the person the profession prices out. He kept the older skill law school professionalizes into procedure: the law of common sense. The choice not to cash it in is the credential; restraint you can point to (the skip skips the queue, never the proving; see the first skip in history). (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)