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Why we built a wiki that ends in decisions

Docs were never the problem. The problem was that nothing written down ever turned into something decided. Marlow Chen Sep 9, 2026 · 4 min read

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Aug 26, 2026 Product

The 90-day page: how we keep a wiki honest

Every page in Quill has an owner and a verification date. Here is why that one constraint fixes wikis, and the three things we got wrong first. Rae Lindqvist · 4 min read Aug 12, 2026 Customers

Async decisions across six time zones

How Bluegill Games runs a 58-person studio where nobody needs to be awake at the same time to decide something. Devin Aracena · 4 min read Jul 30, 2026 Product

Templates that teams actually copy

We looked at 41,288 template copies. Eight templates account for most of them, and none of the eight is what we expected. Noor Haddad · 3 min read Jul 14, 2026 Engineering

Search that finds the sentence

Document search returns documents. People do not want a document. They want the line that answers the question, and to know whether it is still true. Sam Okafor · 4 min read Jun 24, 2026 Remote work

The meeting we stopped having

We cancelled our Monday status meeting fourteen months ago. Here is what replaced it, and the one thing we had to bring back. Theo Park · 3 min read