Working doc on 2026-09-09 candidate. Open questions inline.
Related: 2025-05-09 saas, 2024-01-09 long-term.
Cross-section thread: open retrieval 3693. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Hypothesis → embedding → agent. Worth a second pass; the hypothesis angle keeps coming back.
- Memex → runway → ab-test. Worth a second pass; the memex angle keeps coming back.
- Feature flag → PTO → onboarding. Worth a second pass; the feature flag angle keeps coming back.
- Interview → design review → vault. Worth a second pass; the interview angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.