Michael Spradlin
A lone person in a folding chair on a wide, wet beach at low tide, facing the Pacific surf.
Pacific City, Oregon, United Statesfacing 231°

Essays and Notes1

on ideas from engineering, tried out on people, and lately on machines

Have decided to enjoy uncertainty. Will report back.

1 There are several ways in. It seemed helpful at the time.



Deep Current

all 6 →

Where software economics are actually heading.



The Relay

all 3 →

What BizOps does, and why it keeps being misread.



The Signal

all 6 →

Measuring a thing is not the same as understanding it.



The Scaffold

all 6 →

How organizations get less wrong over time.



The Ledger

all 4 →

Money as operating system.



Common Ground

all 3 →

The politics of having to work together.



The Wiring

all 3 →

The org chart is not the wiring diagram.



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