Spencer Beacock
Many currents, some wrecks ⛯



Hi, I'm Spencer!


I'm a principal at OS, a strategy and design consultancy. I help leaders who work on complex products and services do two things more quickly and confidently:

These things are always hard, and are even harder when orgs don't listen well, get stuck in silos, and lack concrete visions of what the future might look like. I like working with folks who are deep in the mud (and early in the process) of trying to work in better ways. The "this is fine" meme is me.

You can read more about me or about what I'm up to right now, or follow me on Mastodon or LinkedIn.


Sometimes I write about stuff:


Stranded Assets

This post borrows the idea of "stranded assets" from an energy sector experiencing transition to suggest some ways of thinking about services / products and the durability and sustainability of the assets they rely on.

Writing towards the network

This post outlines the goal(s) for this blog. Read this if you want to know why a person started a blog in '23, what its opening moves looked like, and what the moment in time looked like for this kind of internet writing.