The Garage Concept

The vault is the garage for scraps and experiments - the blog is the showroom, kept separate.

Key Concept

• The garage holds tools, scraps, experiments. The showroom is the blog. I do not confuse the two.
• Level 1: The garage holds messy drafts; the blog is what you show visitors - do not mix them up.
• Level 2: Tools, scraps, and experiments stay in the garage; the showroom is the blog - two rooms, two jobs.
• Level 3: Mixing draft and publish lanes breaks trust because visitors see workshop mess as finished work.
• Level 4: Keep capture and experiments in the garage pipe; ship only what belongs in the showroom.
• Level 5: Client pass-off uses the same split - workshop drafts in my garage; client deliverables in the lane they can own via Client Site Pass-Off and Free Tier Hosting Stack.
• Client pass-off uses the same split: Selling Static Sites workshop in my drafts; the client's deploy branch is the showroom on Free Tier Hosting Stack.
• One capture habit, one publish pipe - garage to garden to push, not two note apps fighting over the same idea.

Examples

• The practice film library is messy; the highlight reel for parents is one clean cut - I almost sent raw film once and the coach pulled me back.
• The garage holds half-finished projects and sawdust; the front porch shows the one bench I would invite a neighbor to sit on.

Note Relationships