Explore this digital garden – at various stages of maturity.
This site is rooted in the philosophy of digital gardening🌱 Digital Garden – A personal online space where ideas are cultivated like plants in a garden, allowing for continuous growth and evolution. This concept allows for early publishing of thoughts, which can be refined over time within a space that you own and design. For a deeper dive into this philosophy, read Maggie Appleton’s essay on Digital Gardens., which has enabled me to post my ideas freely, commit to growth and learning in public, and arranging this site to be explored. This differs from traditional blogging, where posts are perfected before publishing them, ordered by a timeline of when that publishing takes place, and not often updated or altered over time, despite comments or feedback.
Arranged to be explored
Much like walking through a garden, the layout avoids a timeline to arrange the posts, so that you might come to each piece out of paths of interest and curiosity. Take a look at the topics and see what piques your interest.
Learning in Public
Posting early makes the barrier to learning or sharing ideas much lower. It encourages community involvement, both of my in-person community and my online readers. By making my writing and this learning process accessible online, other people can benefit from my effort, insights, prompts, etc.
Stages of Maturity
You’ll find that my posts are at different stages of maturity. It is important to be transparent about what I am planting in the garden. A status helps indicate what stage of effort, research, and iterative improvement it has received.
Below are the status indicators you’ll find on the site. Please enjoy my pasta analogy that I could not resist.
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Noodle – This is the initial stage where ideas are just starting to form. Typically these are motivated by conversations with my community, as life is happening. It informs what I’ve been
going on about,
noodling on, etc. Did you know that I invite subscribers to vote on
Monthly Noodles in my email updates?
🥘 Simmer – After the initial excitement of the noodle stage, the idea moves into a simmer. This phase allows the idea to develop complexity and flavor. It’s a slow period of refinement, where the idea is iterated upon, further researched, and updated.
🤌 Al Dente – The perfect bite, texture, and softness. If we “cooked” this idea any longer, it would lose its charm. There’s a satisfying crunch that cannot be disputed, and is sure to leave a long lasting impression on its consumer.
