Working doc on 2026-09-05 retro. Open questions inline.
Related: 2024-01-01 ritual, 2026-09-01 wedge.
Cross-section thread: rough open-source 6625. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Lead investor → monitor → design review. Worth a second pass; the lead investor angle keeps coming back.
- Retention → learning → mission. Worth a second pass; the retention angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.