Neal McSpadden
I build and scale resilient systems. Founder of Tax Sherpa. This is where I document the frameworks, failures, and operating architecture behind my portfolio.
Featured Frameworks
Endorsed Portfolio
The primary ventures and independent standalone platforms I operate and endorse.
Tax Sherpa
Strategic tax planning and financial control for growth-stage businesses and founders.
taxsherpa.com →Resilient Roots
Agricultural operations strategy, land stewardship, and localized resource resilience.
Active AssetFast Path Solutions
High-velocity borrower intake platforms, data verification, and process automation.
Active AssetRecent Thinking
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There Is No Alternative But Inflation: Why Asset Ownership Is the Only Rational Response to Monetary Debasement
A three-criteria filter, financialization, inflation-sensitive yield, and secular supply/demand imbalance, for choosing which assets actually outrun a ~6% long-run monetary debasement rate.
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The Attention Equation: Why This Headline Is the Demonstration, Not the Introduction
A framework for engineering attention — Primitive × Delta × Novelty — explained by using itself on you, in real time, as you read it.
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Intellectual Agency: Measuring Intelligence Through the AI Corpus
Why the truest measure of modern intelligence isn't a traditional IQ test, but the depth, abstraction, and agency revealed in a user's corpus of AI conversations.