#42 2026-04-14
Operator OS v3.2 ships, plus three Notion patterns I keep stealing from Linear
Three patterns: rolling 90-day OKRs (the one Linear uses internally), database splits over 5K rows, and inline AI rollup queries.
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#41 2026-03-31
A 6,000-word teardown of why most Notion productivity templates fail
It is not the design. It is the database count. Most templates ship with 12+ databases. The ones people actually use have 5.
#40 2026-03-17
Figma Kit Pro v2.0 + how I shipped 6 brand presets in one Figma file
Tokens Studio + a single global variable + a Figma component-property-driven preset switcher. The trick is the variable, not the components.
#39 2026-03-03
Stop building MRR dashboards. Build runway dashboards.
MRR is a vanity metric for solo creators. Runway is the only metric that matters. Here is the runway dashboard I use in Studio Ledger.
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