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Build your unique practice style and intellectual capital in IT law. Time to become a legal innovator.
Build your unique practice style
by starting your innovation journey.
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Master entrepreneurial thinking
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Become an IT-
shaped lawyer
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Build your own positioning
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Apply your practice strategy
Build your intellectual capital
through writing.
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Master visionary thinking
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Use the right research methodology
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Identify impact opportunities
4
Apply your tech-focused writing
All blog posts in detail
Nadine Rinderknecht
May 18, 2025
How to develop "IT-shaped thinking" as a lawyer
Improve your problem-solving with vertical and horizontal thinking styles to become a specialized and versatile thinker in IT law.
8 steps to your IT-shaped thinking style
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See your brain as a key to open hidden doors
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Understand your brain before you open the door
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Discover "IT-shaped thinking"
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Use general thinking styles as building blocks
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Strategize with goal-oriented thinking styles
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Become an expert thinker in "vertical styles"
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Balance your thinking with "horizontal styles"
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Emerge as an "IT-shaped thinker"
Nadine Rinderknecht
How to manage your privacy (Blankpage's Privacy Notice)
This step-by-step Privacy Notice walks you through everything you need to know about how your data is used and how to manage your privacy. Do you care enough to read the "world's most boring blog post"?
10 steps to your privacy management
1. Start with an overview
2. Meet your primary contact person
3. Meet other entities that process your data
4. See what type of data is processed
5. Understand why your data is processed
6. Check the security and storage measures in place
7. Map where your data is shared and transferred
8. Manage logs, cookies, and similar technologies
9. Know your rights
10 Check this Privacy Notice regularly
Nadine Rinderknecht
Dec 17, 2023
How to find high-impact topics
This guide shows you how to spot high-impact topics in technology law, shape regulatory frameworks and address societal challenges before they become critical.
8 steps to your impact
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Understand why it matters
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Learn the basics of the Hype Cycle
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Evaluate current and past Hype Cycles
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Incorporate the 3 types of indicators into your analysis
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Assess the unique characteristics of the technology
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Assess the technological impact on society
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Assess the gaps in legal scholarship
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Mitigate your risks
Nadine Rinderknecht
Oct 16, 2022
Understand how to stop competing in others' games and start designing your own. Focus on your strengths and create personalized rules that no one else can beat you at. All while managing the unpredictable turns of life.
6 steps to your own game
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Explore your playing area
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Place yourself in the center of the area
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Know your strengths and strengths
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Find your character
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Shape your strategy
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Start playing your own game
Nadine Rinderknecht
Oct 29, 2022
How to start your career in IT law
Discover practical strategies for entering the IT law market already as a Bachelor's or Master's student. Learn how to impress employers and continuously advance your career.
4 steps to your career
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Easy starts with "barrier-free" activities
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Build your competitive advantage
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Master the art of CV humility
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Become a generalist with a specialism
Nadine Rinderknecht
Dec 17, 2023
How to find high-impact topics
This guide shows you how to spot high-impact topics in technology law, shape regulatory frameworks and address societal challenges before they become critical.
8 steps to your impact
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Understand why it matters
-
Learn the basics of the Hype Cycle
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Evaluate current and past Hype Cycles
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Incorporate the 3 types of indicators into your analysis
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Assess the unique characteristics of the technology
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Assess the technological impact on society
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Assess the gaps in legal scholarship
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Mitigate your risks
Nadine Rinderknecht
Dec 12, 2021
How to write a truly innovative paper
Develop your intuition, mature your innovations, and conceptualize with an elegance and simplicity that make your readers wonder: "Why didn't I think of that?"
10 steps to your innovation
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Find a "free spot"
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Choose a good timing
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Assess the potential
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Create the foundation for intuition
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Fill the "free spot" with innovation
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Restrict your innovation
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Let the innovation mature
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Lead the innovation to simplicity and elegance
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Diffuse your paper and make an impact
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Return to step 1
Nadine Rinderknecht
Mar 16, 2022
How to search for online publications on the web
Explore how to overcome common obstacles and increase your search efficiency when using search engines, library catalogs, specialized databases, and literature management tools.
4 steps to find literature online
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Optimize your search engine techniques
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Explore library catalogs
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Use specialized databases
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Discover additional literature management tools
Nadine Rinderknecht
Apr 12, 2022
How to write a visionary paper (Part 1)
To develop proactive and far-sighted solutions, it's helpful to have a vision. It enables you to find your way in the chaos. Part 1 allows you to understand the future – before you shape it.
4 steps to your vision
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Learn the lessons of past futurists
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Understand the dynamics of megatrends
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Spot smaller trends
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Find your way through the fog of future uncertainty
Nadine Rinderknecht
Dec 11, 2021
How to write a digital economy paper
Learn practical strategies for writing papers on the digital economy that balance forward-thinking ideas with traditional approaches. Address tomorrow's challenges today.
7 steps to your digital economy paper
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Apply old solutions to "new" problems
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Discuss "new" problems with reservation and put them into perspective
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Consider both benefits and drawbacks
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Maintain a broad perspective on technological developments
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Incorporate insights from multiple disciplines
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Create a subsidiary paper
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"Push" yourself forward
Retry
FAQ
What's this blog about?
Provide unique value through "learning by thinking"
Most lawyers hope their career improves through learning by doing. But we take a more strategic approach: In this blog, we'll systematically think about our thinking.
We'll learn how to create a unique practice style to become the go-to lawyer in a field we created. And we'll learn how to write papers about emerging challenges to stay ahead.
It's time for us to create what only we can see. And deliver value only we can.
What spirit is this based on? Entrepreneurial spirit
This blog is based on an entrepreneurial spirit that challenges lawyers to think like innovators rather than traditional service providers.
We break free from "we've always done it this way", take calculated risks, and create value only we can see. Because we think differently.
What's our approach? Experimenting
I'm not an expert. I'm just experimenting. And writing is a great way to see things more clearly. In this blog, I share with you what I've learned along the way.
Feel free to use my experiments as a starting point for yous. Time for us to become legal innovators!
Who walks with you?
Hello, I'm Nadine Rinderknecht
Experience in law firms and academia
Master of Law (Zurich), LL.M.
TMT (London), and other stuff
I believe some “blank pages” have been lying in the dark for centuries, waiting to be discovered and filled with our ideas (hence the name of this website).
I'm currently focusing on becoming an IT-shaped lawyer and finding my unique practice style, combining my background in IT law with UX/UI design.
How will we get there?
Actionable and motivational tips
Theory might be interesting. Actionable and motivational tips advance your career.
My step-by-step strategies and practical tips guide you from confusion to solution.
How can you create a wormhole to travel to my other website?
Just move your mouse over the UX privacy logo below!
I also created www.uxprivacy.world, a website about compliance that doesn't feel like legalese. Turn privacy compliance from a necessary burden into a business asset using strategic UX design. See you there!
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