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I got a lot of feedback that zotero was too clunky for people to use


Thank you! Glad you found it interesting and it resonated with you.

You can find out more about the next thing here - https://mura-website.notion.site/Founding-Engineer-at-Mura-1...

tl;dr - helping commercial HVAC providers accelerate and automate their order-to-cash cycle. Big and interesting market with a lot of opportunities for efficiencies


Thanks. HVAC space is huge and as a home owner who literally just paid $1000 to replace a control board, I know how critical that market is. Will check it out.


Yeah, explored options like that. The schools and teachers that teach legal writing don't think about giving students experience with the tools they'll have in the workforce - they think that every student needs to learn how to do things by hand. It's an unfortunate way of thinking that I wasn't able to get them out of the mindset of.


That's surprising to me, as the school I went to had reps from the big legal research/writing services with offices on campus, we got free training in using them, and the idea was we'd be hooked on those very expensive services when we were out in the real world!


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