exploration, hidden gems, and gatekeeping

born too early to explore the galaxies, born too late to explore the earth, born just in time to explore the sketchy restaurant next door (meme) this was written during my time at rabbitholeathon 4.0. see the presentation here, and my thoughts on rabbitholathon will go up soon! i have this fascination that when i live somewhere for an extended period of time, to try to find hidden gems. i’ve always wondered about what made things hidden gems, and why i care so much about finding something that the masses haven’t. so to start, what is a hidden gem? its easy to break it down into two, hidden, and gems - hidden meaning something hard to find and gem meaning something of value - so in other words a hidden gem is something of value which is hard to find. hard to find could be digital - maybe the place has no online presence, or physical, behind an unmarked door. value is subjective, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. another way to look at hidden gems is to look at phrases with similar m

born too early to explore the galaxies, born too late to explore the earth, born just in time to explore the sketchy restaurant next door (meme) this was written during my time at rabbitholeathon 4.0. see the presentation here, and my thoughts on rabbitholathon will go up soon! i have this fascination that when i live somewhere for an extended period of time, to try to find hidden gems. i’ve always wondered about what made things hidden gems, and why i care so much about finding something that the masses haven’t. so to start, what is a hidden gem? its easy to break it down into two, hidden, an