Michael Spradlin
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Occasional Essays
Occasional essays on work and the quieter mechanics of how things hold together. More field notes than finished arguments, a way to see if ideas survive daylight. Mostly about operations, sometimes about everything else.
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2025-08-31
The Lights Always Turn On
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2025-08-24
The Beat Goes Flat
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2025-08-17
Centralize. Embed. Repeat.
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2025-08-10
Tools Only Amplify What You Already Have
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2025-08-03
Less Wrong Over Time
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2025-07-27
The Comfort of Familiar Crises
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2025-07-20
The Invisible Engine: Why BizOps Builds Belief, Not Just Plans
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2025-07-13
Looking Past the Green
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2025-07-06
Built to Shift: Why BizOps Defies Definition
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2025-06-29
Part II: RevOps — A Highway You Can’t Own, But Must Keep Moving
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2025-06-22
Quote-to-Cash Isn’t a Pipeline. It’s a Trust System
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2025-06-15
The Ghost(s) in the Org Chart
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2025-06-08
Part 1: The (RevOps) System Behind the System
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2025-06-01
When the Star Player Leaves
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2025-05-25
Building for Durability
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2025-05-18
Fragile by Default
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2025-05-11
Forecasts Are Lies (But Useful Lies)
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2025-05-04
Finance Is the Feedback Loop
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2025-04-27
Cash Is the Operating System
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2025-04-20
On the Practice
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2025-04-13
The Systems That Hold
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2024-12-29
Measured in Digits
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2024-12-22
Cells, Functions, and the Joy of Making Things Behave
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2024-12-15
Taming the Spreadsheet Hydra
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2024-12-08
The Caution Trap
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2024-12-01
The Speed Fallacy
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2024-02-14
Start with the Posts
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2024-02-07
How the Tide Is Made
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2023-07-27
The Baseline Breaks
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2023-06-21
Red Test
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2023-06-14
The Question Nobody Wants to Answer
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2023-06-07
Earning the Right to Explore
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