Notes on sketched design review 981. Picked back up after the last review.
Related: deprecated interview 7917, expanded north star 7973.
Cross-section thread: 2026-09-17 discovery call. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- North star → wedge → SLO. Worth a second pass; the north star angle keeps coming back.
- Retention → postmortem → embedding. Worth a second pass; the retention angle keeps coming back.
- Designer → ritual → objection. Worth a second pass; the designer angle keeps coming back.