Notes on Sam Patel. Picked back up after the last review.
Related: Jamal Ortiz, Iris Okafor.
Cross-section thread: 2026-09-21 self-host. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Founder → burn rate → alert. Worth a second pass; the founder angle keeps coming back.
- Feature flag → feature flag → value. Worth a second pass; the feature flag angle keeps coming back.
Last touch: replied on email, owe a follow-up next week. Context they care about is mostly in projects/.