About me
I’m Dalton, a third-year law student at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.
During law school, I wrote two law review articles (one is published and the other is forthcoming). I am also a research and teaching assistant. I spent my 2L summer at Buchalter, where I plan to return after graduation in May 2027.
Before I started law school, I was the senior digital creator and designer at Farnam Street. While there, I grew a YouTube channel to 300,000 subscribers, edited a video that received one million views, worked on a social media campaign for a New York Times bestselling book, produced a podcast that got over 250,000 downloads per month, and edited and animated online course videos that were taken by employees and executives at companies like Apple and Twitter.
I graduated from Southeastern University in 2021 with a bachelors in Digital Media and Design.
In 2020, I edited and produced the video version of Morning Brew's Business Casual podcast.
From 2017–2019, I participated in a leadership college and internship program at Bayside Church. When I graduated the program, I was hired as the Communicators Director for one of the campuses and then became the Global Social Media Manager.
The legacy I hope to leave behind is similar to that of Albert Einstein's. Not his groundbreaking theories, but his curiosity and humility. After his death, The New York Times wrote this:
Man stands on this diminutive earth, gazes at the myriad of stars and upon billowing ocean and tossing trees--and wonders. What does it all mean? How did it come about? The most thoughtful wonderer who appeared among us in three centuries has passed on in the person of Albert Einstein.
About the blog
I share quotes, stories, lessons, and ideas from the books I read and the people I read about.
I echo what Will Durant said:
Therefore I feel that we of this generation give too much time to news about the transient present, too little to the living past. We are choked with news, and starved of history. We know a thousand items about the day or yesterday, we learn the events and troubles and heartbreaks of a hundred peoples, the policies and pretensions of a dozen capitals, the victories and defeats of causes, armies, athletic teams.
But how, without history, can we understand these events, discriminate their significance, sift out the large from the small, see the basic currents underlying surface movements and changes, and foresee the result sufficiently to guard against fatal error or the souring of unreasonable hopes?"
Will Durant, The Map of Human Character
Read those posts here. I primarily read history and biography books. You can find my notes on over 45 books here.
Colophon
This site is built with NextJS and Tailwind. It's hosted on Vercel. I write my posts in Obsidian. The body type is Source Serif and the heading type is Inter.
Get in touch
Like something I wrote? Hate something I wrote? Just want to say hello? Send me an email: maberydalton at gmail dot com. (I have to spell it that way so I don't get spam emails.)