▸ members only
The half-life of a good tool
Three categories of tool exist in the working life of a professional: the tool you'll throw out in eighteen months, the tool you'll throw out in five years, and the tool that will, with mild adjustments, outlive you. Almost everyone confuses category one for category three.
▸ members only · things i teach
The rest of this is for members.
Members get the full tutorial — transcript, runnable starter repo, and the long version of every dispatch. $5 a month. $50 a year. Cancel any time.
// pillar · build
The half-life of a skill
Three things have a half-life: uranium-238, the enthusiasm of a new hire, and your knowledge of CSS. The third one is the only one most of us pretend isn't happening.
Taste is the last moat
When every engineer can ship a feature in an afternoon and every designer can prototype in a sentence, the only thing left to compete on is what you choose not to build.
// share this transmission
I write Sage After Dark after the studio closes for the day — one essay or one field note a week, sent Sundays at 21:00 ET. No tracking, no growth-hacks, no schedule outside Sunday.
If this piece moved something for you (or annoyed you), the reply line on every email lands in an inbox I actually read. The list is small on purpose, and the founding window is still open.
Sundays · one essay or one field note · no growth-hacks · unsubscribe in one click.