Sam Spurlin
@samspurlin.bsky.social
Co-host of At Work With The Ready, a podcast about the future of work. Writer of The Deliberate.
Consultant, coach, advisor & friend to people and orgs who care.
Consultant, coach, advisor & friend to people and orgs who care.
The tiny hill I’m willing to be mildly harmed on is that all “yearly reviews” (including things like Spotify Wrapped) should come out in January. Such disrespect for December.
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The tiny hill I’m willing to be mildly harmed on is that all “yearly reviews” (including things like Spotify Wrapped) should come out in January. Such disrespect for December.
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Raymond showing Larkin his appreciation for that OT winner. 🥰 #LGRW
December 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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In what feels like an apt metaphor to end a challenging year, I have somehow ripped the armrest off my desk chair this morning.
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
In what feels like an apt metaphor to end a challenging year, I have somehow ripped the armrest off my desk chair this morning.
As part of my job search I've been going back through old projects and I have to share the most cursed one: I tried to write a recap after every Detroit Red Wings game during the 2017-2018 season but only lasted like 29 games because that team was so painful to watch:
medium.com/odd-man-rush
medium.com/odd-man-rush
Odd Man Rush
Game recaps and commentary from someone who used to be kind of good at hockey.
medium.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As part of my job search I've been going back through old projects and I have to share the most cursed one: I tried to write a recap after every Detroit Red Wings game during the 2017-2018 season but only lasted like 29 games because that team was so painful to watch:
medium.com/odd-man-rush
medium.com/odd-man-rush
Maybe organizational transformation was always the wrong metaphor. Organizations don't move from "bad" to "good" and stay there. Left alone, they drift toward entropy -- confusion, bureaucracy, decay.
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Maybe organizational transformation was always the wrong metaphor. Organizations don't move from "bad" to "good" and stay there. Left alone, they drift toward entropy -- confusion, bureaucracy, decay.
something something selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-rush- except-the-gold-rush-was-just-some-guy-talking-about-some-gold-he-saw-once?
Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have yet to find a way to make money from AI — but the startups selling them training data and hiring data annotators have.
Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social and @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social and @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
something something selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-rush- except-the-gold-rush-was-just-some-guy-talking-about-some-gold-he-saw-once?