02 — 2018 — 2024

Organization

Culture as an engineering problem. Spiral Dynamics applied to real teams, and what comes after Teal.

Organizations are systems. They have constraints, feedback loops, and failure modes — the difference is that the components can argue back.

I led engineering teams of up to a hundred people across two decades and two continents. The series here maps what I found onto Spiral Dynamics, then goes past it: the model explains why a company is stuck, not what to build instead. That part I had to work out myself.

Selected writing

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The third system is live

Daily notes on the body, the measurements, and what the data says.

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