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Tool Stack Design: Building Your Personal Work System
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Tool Stack Design: Building Your Personal Work System

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 30 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Tool stack design: choosing one tool per function, integrating data flow, and starting minimal before adding more.

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What was corrected

What the page claimed
Article included an anecdote about Sahil Lavingia's personal tool stack and an Okta statistic about medium-sized enterprises and app-switching frequency that could not be verified, cited a researcher, 'Dr. Stefan Mayer (HEC Paris),' who could not be verified to exist in any faculty directory, referenced a Notion study of 50,000 teams that could not be verified, and included specific internal statistics for Basecamp, Automattic, Superhuman, USDS, and Stripe that could not be verified (including an Automattic revenue-per-employee figure inconsistent with public data, and a reference to Basecamp's HEY email service in a 2018 context, though HEY did not launch until 2020).
What was corrected
Removed the Lavingia anecdote and Okta misattribution, replacing them with an accurately hedged description of Lavingia's real minimalist-tooling approach and correctly attributed Okta enterprise figures. Removed the Stefan Mayer study reference and the Notion study entirely. Rewrote the Basecamp, Automattic, Superhuman, USDS, and Stripe sections to describe their real, documented approaches and public statements without the unverifiable statistics, and removed the chronologically inconsistent reference to HEY in a 2018 context.

Why this is better

Verified via web search against primary sources: Okta's published Businesses at Work reports, Sahil Lavingia's public commentary (Lenny's Newsletter), HEC Paris and Cambridge faculty directories (no record of a Stefan Mayer), Automattic's public revenue and headcount figures, and the absence of any corroborating source for the studies cited at Notion, Basecamp, Superhuman, USDS, or Stripe.

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