Daniel Whittington

Brit • Lawyer • Flaneur • Bibliophile • Thalassophile • Just doing my best to stay sane and solvent.

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

"I opened my eyes and saw the real world, and I began to laugh, and I haven’t stopped since."
Søren Kierkegaard

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Dream job?

Unemployed with a mysterious source of income

[Prep Propaganda 👔 @prep_propaganda]

Can never have too much sailing wall art

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

@abigbluebird Sent my kid to the fancy, expensive pre-school and he still came out the other end saying “lah”. Should have saved the money and sent him to Sparkletots tbh.

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

True story! We contracted the only specialist within 500 miles capable of servicing a bespoke system at a remote client facility. Negotiated 30 day payment terms. Approved at SVP level. Signed. A few weeks later, procurement finds out and tries to renegotiate to 60 days. The specialist said fine, but you’ll need to sign a credit agreement with me for the additional 30 days. I find out about this when procurement lands in my inbox asking me to draft a credit agreement with a vendor we just onboarded. Turns out, rather than honour the approved 30 day terms, they preferred to add a 20 page agreement to the transaction and formally become a debtor to the vendor they’d just tried to squeeze. All to tick a box. Needless to say, I killed their request with a hatchet. Procurement. Never change. 🤦

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

@JackChambersGB Fatu-Hiva

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
—Douglas Adams

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

@SMB_Attorney Why was there even a trial? I wasn’t following proceedings but was there an argument that sol shouldn’t apply here?

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

Frrr

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

"The greater the man, the less is he opinionative; he depends upon events and circumstances."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

@realEstateTrent Hire him immediately!

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

@TobechiOgazi Only one? I literally have hundreds 😅

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party is over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on and you have to leave.”

— Christopher Hitchens

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

@Aguillemes Ha! Same, same. Greetings from Singapore.

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

“Being hated by idiots is the price you pay for not being one of them.”

- Jean Cocteau

[Daniel Whittington @DanielWhitters]

I fully agree with you on existing client relationships, but I feel that prospective clients sharing sensitive commercial information before signing an engagement letter sits in a grey area. The duty may attach, but its scope is less certain and of course, in the absense of a retainer/ engagement letter, it is harder to enforce.

[nick @nickemmons]

One of my favourite quotes comes from an obscure book written by a Scottish mountaineer in the 50s

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.”

—Ernest Hemingway