Notes

Letters from the Chart Room.

These are working notes, not a magazine. We publish when a cohort has argued something worth keeping.

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12 June 2026 · Maren Calder

Event taxonomies that still make sense in year three

Why verbs beat features, and why “misc” is a future invoice.

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19 May 2026 · Julian Hesketh

Funnel leakage is not a metric

Drop-off is a story about instrumentation as often as it is a story about users.

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28 April 2026 · Maren Calder

When DAU starts lying to a product team

Lock screens, shared tablets, and the daily number that survives every meeting.

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3 February 2026 · Julian Hesketh

Cohort windows for apps that bill monthly

Calendar days are a magazine habit. Billing objects are the country you actually live in.

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11 November 2025 · Maren Calder

Instrumentation debt in mobile SDKs

The event you cannot retire, the version you cannot reach, and the quiet cost of a dual-write.