Working doc on Rio Ortiz. Open questions inline.
Related: Bren Liu, Ari Garcia.
Cross-section thread: 2026-09-25 ship. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Postmortem → incident → metric. Worth a second pass; the postmortem angle keeps coming back.
- Value → training → doc. Worth a second pass; the value angle keeps coming back.
- Open-source → convertible note → diligence. Worth a second pass; the open-source angle keeps coming back.
- Engineer → adr → memex. Worth a second pass; the engineer angle keeps coming back.
Last touch: replied on email, owe a follow-up next week. Context they care about is mostly in projects/.