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  <title>Field notes · Venkatesh Gardas</title>
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  <description>Field notes from building PitStop, Saathi and Roko: real decisions, real measurements, real walk-backs.</description>
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    <title>Three design systems in five days</title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>What churn actually costs, measured on the smallest codebase I own. What each reskin invalidated, and the six things that survived all three.</description>
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    <title>The feature I measured, walked back and shipped smaller</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The realtime design that failed its own probe, and the smaller one that shipped the same day. A case study in naming a risk before building on it.</description>
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