What Stayed the Same for Me in 2023All glory is in the new. Every January there are countless words written about what people are going to do differently. What about…Jan 4Jan 4
Using Experimentation to Explore Three Themes in 2023Plans are made to be broken and goals are simply a snapshot in time. Both have a misleading way of giving a sense of clarity and certainty…Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023
State of the Software in 2022: A Review of the Tools I Use to Live and WorkOriginally published on SamSpurlin.com on December 13th, 2022Jan 6, 2023Jan 6, 2023
Making Deliberate Decisions about the Evolution of My CareerA Seven Year Retrospective and Looking Ahead to What’s NextOct 5, 2022Oct 5, 2022
An Experiment in Focus, Space, and Making Progress on Something DifficultToday, Friday, July 8th, I’m commencing a four-week experiment centered on the need to make progress on an important project. In what I’m…Jul 8, 20221Jul 8, 20221
I never properly mourned the end of my hockey careerMy hockey career died several small deaths before finally dying for good at the end of 2019.Mar 29, 2022Mar 29, 2022
Stop trying to change your habits and start playing with Deliberate Patterns insteadWhy habit change is the wrong thing to focus on — and what to do insteadMar 28, 2022Mar 28, 2022
DAOs and Their Evolving Operating SystemsDAOs are complex and frequently chaotic environments. As a new organizational technology, there are very few best practices that have…Feb 3, 2022Feb 3, 2022
2021 In ReviewA year has always felt impossibly long. Something that happens in January and something that happens in December have always felt like they…Dec 31, 2021Dec 31, 2021