The Specificity Gradient, and Other Things
A conceptual framework I coined last year shows up again, and apparently I am a YouTuber now. Also: a new, limited-run, subscriber-only newsletter: The Nature of Software.
The other night, I came home from seeing some friends and hadn’t checked Twitter in a while. When I did, I saw this: In the last month my go-to in consulting situations is @doriantaylor’s Specificity Gradient. —Ben Kraal I want to be clear here that I am actually pretty jazzed that at least one real live person is clocking actual (Australian) consulting dollars using a conceptual framework I came up with in a one-take, nine-minute video that I blasted out in February of 2021 and didn’t think too much about it since. It means there’s some actual operational value to it, and it’s not just…
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