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It's a bad day for Mordor Compliance
The Frontier Psychiatrists newsletter has some associated sub-newsletters. One of them is a series of satirical articles, where I address Compliance and regulatory issues through the lens of:
Examining what might've happened in the Lord of the Rings fantasy world had legal and compliance departments been involved.
This is silly stuff. It is intended to keep everyone's feelings intact. I am going to link to prior articles throughout. I will remind readers that this is a mostly free for new posts newsletter, with a lot of content (>400 articles) behind the paywall of older content, and if they enjoy the newsletter, they can subscribe or share to earn free access to the archives. It’s harder to be Sauron if you think everyone is watching you constantly, I imagine. He tried to go big with the One Ring…and frankly, It didn’t scale.
Without further ado…
“You've got to be kidding me.”
“sir, I wish I were.”
“I told you not to call me sir. I'm the most junior of the Nazgûl. I just barely …