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SEAM

    Patterns rhyming
        across eras—
    how paradigms
        carry forward,
            and who
    they leave behind.

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SEAM · 02

SEAM #2: The Saturday Meeting

How Walmart’s store field and Saturday ritual produced a return Kmart could not match

"Walmart and Kmart began the same year. One built a store-and-distribution system whose shape, cadence, and ROIC the other could not readily copy."

with Xule Lin, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Claude Fable 5, Codex (GPT-5.6-sol)
July 2026

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SEAM · 01

A century-old question about how paradigms spread — and to whom

"In 1911, 70% of American firms hadn't adopted Scientific Management. Today, only 1 in 5 has restructured around AI. What moves the seventy percent?"

with Xule Lin, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.7
April 2026

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companion

"Read a task structure matrix the way Baldwin's framework intends — then watch the algorithm derive one from a live dependency graph."