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Jered Gaspard

The Only Way to Win the Culture War is to Not Play

I want to write briefly — very briefly — on the culture war, then I want to never talk about it again. Here goes:

4 min readApr 9, 2022

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The Only Way to Win the Culture War is to Not Play

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Jered Gaspard

What’s Rotten About the Parthenon

“But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture?” He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.

6 min readApr 6, 2022

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What’s Rotten About the Parthenon

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Jered Gaspard

Doing the Work vs. Playing the Game

There are lots of artifacts to the game. Organizational charts, slide decks, policy documents, memos, mission and vision statements, dress…

3 min readJan 28, 2021

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Doing the Work vs. Playing the Game

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Jered Gaspard

Why do We do It?

The question in the title there is a compass. It’s a sort of rhetorical totem, a little tiny question wherein we can stuff a whole ton of…

4 min readJan 16, 2021

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Why do We do It?

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Jered Gaspard

You develop people — you mean like developing film?

How do you develop people? What does it mean to develop people? When we say “I’ve built a team, I’ve hired smart people and I’ve grown…

5 min readJan 16, 2021

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You develop people — you mean like developing film?

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Jered Gaspard

Imposter Syndrome — Waswas and PPM

The vantage point is, in my opinion, the most compelling aspect of all PPM. Where functional leadership is necessarily focused on the…

4 min readNov 24, 2020

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Imposter Syndrome — Waswas and PPM

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Jered Gaspard

Here in the Looking-Glass, What Culture?

And when we drove home from the office for the last time, cleared those desks of picture frames and vases and set up our laptops, and…

4 min readSep 30, 2020

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Here in the Looking-Glass, What Culture?

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Jered Gaspard

From Custom Dev to SaaS — Why Is This So Hard?

Custom Dev to SaaS isn’t a switch; it’s a slider. You’ll move it slowly over time as you master some difficult customer conversations.

5 min readSep 29, 2020

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From Custom Dev to SaaS — Why Is This So Hard?

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Jered Gaspard

Infinite Jest, In Defiance of the Elevator Pitch of Plot

On Reddit, there was a thread where someone was about 200+ pages into Infinite Jest and wondering if they should continue on, as it wasn’t…

5 min readFeb 12, 2019

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Infinite Jest, In Defiance of the Elevator Pitch of Plot

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The Segue is Where We Are Now, an overlap between our industrialized society and the new information economy. It’s not new, we’ve been here for a while, but there’s a dissonance that’s now deafening and we know it’s time to change. These things are important.
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