Journal

Notes we were willing to sign.

These essays come out of sittings at the desk. They are not a content calendar. If a piece feels like a sales letter, we failed.

People in a meeting with laptops open

12 March 2026

The event schema you cannot unship

Renaming a property in week twelve is a political act. A taxonomy is a promise to every dashboard that already exists.

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Team collaborating at a long table

2 February 2026

Why 30-day retention lies after a rebrand

New bundle IDs, new identity graphs, and the polite fiction of a continuous series.

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Portrait of a person in a tailored office setting

18 November 2025

Reading empty cohorts without panic

A small method for when the heatmap is blank and the Slack thread is not.

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Financial chart on a monitor

9 September 2025

Session replay is not a metric

Watching a stranger tap through onboarding can be illuminating. Counting those watches is a category error.

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