/decisions · 2026-05-11 · board backfill · sanity-check

Sanity Check: founder/joiner/investor frame — pick an angle (or pass)

Decision logged from the Notion task board. Click an action to fire an iMessage back to the Ray session with the decision encoded.

Three angles drafted from Dave's Moonshots trichotomy. Founder picks which (if any) fits the next-3-issues lineup.

Context

Three usable angles for Sanity Check, audience = mostly data engineers weighing which path fits them in the agent era:

  1. 'Most data engineers are joiners, not founders — and that's fine. How to pick the right one.'
  2. 'The agent era is creating new joiner roles that didn't exist 18 months ago. How to spot them.'
  3. 'Investor-track for technical operators: AI angel investing as a parallel discipline.'

Lock in

Approve

Greenlight the action with optional context (instructions, scope notes, anything Ray should carry into execution).

Approve + send
Archive

Drop this from the active board. Add a one-line reason so the kill is on the record.

Archive + send
Split

Keep part, defer part. Use the two fields to describe each.

Split + send
Defer

Push this out to a specific date.

Defer + send