Get to know Fletcher
Start with the quick introduction, then get to know the background and working style.
The Stuff I Have Online
Site Navigation
There’s software, teaching, writing, frameworks, music, and a little mischief here. Choose something you want to explore, or browse the directory below. Some destinations are finished work. Others show an idea still taking shape.
Explore by interest or goal
Numbered paths follow a useful order. The other collections are yours to browse however you like.
See how an idea becomes something real
Follow the invention model into the reasoning and decisions around a concrete software project.
Explore AI collaboration
See the collaboration model, inspect a project, then try a stance.
Explore systems and organizational work
Choose operations experience, documentation systems, or a framework and its software application.
Explore teaching and everyday support
Explore teaching practice and resources built around how people learn and manage everyday life.
Find something to read
Browse essays, a book, or technical documentation.
Follow your curiosity
Make something, read a complaint about being human, find music, or explore an invention history.
Explore the job-search story
Read the condensed lessons first, then the unemployment and job-search story behind them.
The directory
Each destination has a short description here. Related resources stay with the project they belong to. External destinations are marked.
Start Here
- Home
The short introduction to this portfolio, laboratory, and field notebook.
- TL;DR
The quick introduction to Fletcher and his work.
- About
Background across writing, teaching, operations, and systems.
- What It’s Like to Work With Me
How I approach problems, collaboration, and everyday work.
- Testimonials
What other people have said about working with me.
Inventions & Frameworks
- Resident Inventor
An interactive model built from the histories of nine inventions.
Choose a tab on that page to explore Dream Machine, Anchorpoint / LeanMate, The Way They See It, CYOA Video Game Graphic Novels, OEI, ECH, Porpoise, The Lemonade Economy, or Inventor’s Lab and its Masked Tuk-Tuk Driver example. These histories include concepts and evolving work, not just released products.
- Operational Entropy IndexExternal
I developed OEI to investigate operational strain across five pillars. The OEI Institute governs the methodology and its practice standards, and develops practitioner training, assessment, and authorization pathways.
On the OEI site: the methodology · the Institute.
- The Lemonade EconomyExternal
An evolving reference system with paired perspectives for people with executive dysfunction and the people supporting them.
Related software: LemonlessTMS: Case Study.
Software & AI
- Custom Software Builder
How I figure out what software should do and how it should behave.
- LemonlessTMS: Case Study
Task-management software developed within The Lemonade Economy, with examples of design decisions and release testing.
- How I Collaborate With AI
An explanation, playable model, and examples of AI contribution and human judgment.
- Porpoise: Case Study
The development and behavioral design of portable AI stances.
- Porpoise Stances
Six free YAML stances for different kinds of conversations with AI assistants.
The library includes Archivist, Challenger, Confidante, The Drafter, Explorer, and Panic Room. Downloads and instructions stay together on the product page.
- Entropy Compatible HiringExternal
OEI-derived software for structured hiring interviews and existing-employee contribution mapping. The linked product page documents its beta status.
Also documented in Show & Tell Nook: Swipet, a pet-adoption software project, and Invisible Load, a calculator developed into browser and desktop software. The feed records their development. No public app destination is provided here.
For a creative interactive tool, try Inventor’s Lab.
Teaching & Learning
- Inglés Rebelde
An English-teaching approach with practical learning styles and a Spanish/English interface.
Teaching background: EAFIT.
Writing & Publications
- Longer Thoughts (Substack)External
Longer-form writing.
- The Toddler in The MachineExternal
An introduction to a collaborative research project about raising children in a world shaped by AI, and the skills and frameworks that could help prepare them for it.
- Pantry BehaviorExternal
A published book. This link opens its Amazon listing.
- Technical Writing Samples
Four selected documentation samples, with links to the PDFs.
Music & Other Mischief
- My never-ending quest for the perfect playlist
Choose Chill, Medium, or Hype. This project is intentionally unfinished.
- Chill: Magnum Opus, Time Capsule, Minty Chill, Chill for Driving
- Medium: These Always Slap, alongside categories still waiting for content
- Hype Under Construction
- Inventor’s LabExternal
A creative tool that combines a topic, method, and direction to give you something to make.
- “Prison Planet”
A protest against recurring biological maintenance, written as software complaints.
Experience & Updates
- Coupa
Knowledge-systems responsibilities, governance, documentation standards, and intended outcomes.
- Qount
A knowledge-base rebuild as the sole technical writer.
- Superna
Documentation leadership and a docs-as-code rebuild of more than 100 articles.
- Traze
Documentation created from scratch across more than 250 articles.
- TWL
Operations and coordination across 13 projects and more than 50 people.
- Jobs prior to 2020
Earlier work in collections, education, manufacturing, and online communities.
- My Recent Job Search
The unemployment period, job search, and eventual hiring at Coupa.
- Job-search lessons
The condensed lessons from that search.
- Show & Tell Nook
Dated dispatches about things I’ve been making.
Contact & resources
- Professional Background (PDF)
A downloadable professional-background reference.
- Contact
Book a conversation.
- My Gumroad Products
The product storefront linked from this portfolio.
Or email me: fletcherdgaleano@gmail.com · fletcher@operationalentropy.com
Unfinished destinations are part of the workshop. The playlist’s empty areas remain in place, and invention histories show what was explored without promising a finished product.