I’ve spent the past 48 hours with my head in the clouds—not because of post-election overload, but rather because I’ve been at the NetDocuments ndElevate conference in Park City, Utah. I participated on a legal technology media panel Wednesday with consultant Brett Burney and ReplyAll Corp. co-founder and Bloomberg Above the Law writer Zach Abramowitz (I dubbed myself Zach #2), but the rest of the time I spent listening, learning and observing.

And there was certainly a lot to learn beyond the simple fact that I wasn’t ready for weather under 20 degrees quite yet. Here’s what has stood out to me over the past couple days:

1. Platformization