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Steve McGarvey

SteveMcGarvey

Living life outside Raleigh, North Carolina. Most mornings start with coffee and Scripture before anything else gets moving. Most nights end on the couch next to my wife and best friend, Becky, just enjoying quiet time together.

This space is for the things that happen in between. It's where I put things down instead of leaving them in a private notebook: thoughts during the day that need to get out of my head, things that help me keep my faith and humanity in an age of increasing noise, maybe some things my kids will find interesting someday. Upstream, my consulting practice, lives here too, if that's what brought you.

Writing

In drafts

  • The Camera Points at the Workshop
  • Specified, Not Grown

Series

Judgment Under Constraint

Essays on decision-making, failure, and how organizations break at scale.

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Dear Younger Me

Career judgment addressed to a younger self, with AI as the thread running through it.

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