I think what I don’t like about most prep, even situational prep, is that it reminds me a lot of what I do to prepare a file for trial. I locate the key people, the key information, I lay out it in easy-to-access formats, I cross-reference things that are consistent or inconsistent, I try to pin down things that will make people uncomfortable.

I don’t like doing that all day by myself in my office and then come home to do it at home “for fun”. Eff that. Especially because I’m a pretty competent improviser, so as long as I have the basic situation and a handful of names, I can run most of my favourite systems completely off-the-cuff. It might even be why they are my favourite systems.