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Digital Gardening

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As of 2021, this process is no longer accurate. I’ve embraced a much more networked form of note taking which I’ve written about here and here. A gardener tenderly shovels and removes unwanted weeds and pours water to nourish the plants he wants to grow. He takes care to make sure the soil isn’t too wet and that each plant has ample space to grow. When the time comes, he harvests each fruit and vegetable and makes sure to plant seeds so that he can repeat the process anew in a few weeks time. A garden is a metaphor for a lot of things: growth, persistence, and the constant battle against entropy. When I talk about digital gardening, I don’t mean digital gardening in the Stardew Valley or FarmVille sense. I mean gardening as in the tending and growth of my own ideas and projects on my own little plot of the world wide web — namely through my writing, notes, and projects. After reading Joel Hook’s blog post on his own digital garden, I’ve been thinking and reflecting on my own processes

As of 2021, this process is no longer accurate. I’ve embraced a much more networked form of note taking which I’ve written about here and here . A gardener tenderly shovels and removes unwanted weeds and pours water to nourish the plants he wants to grow. He takes care to make sure the soil isn’t too wet and that each plant has ample space to grow. When the time comes, he harvests each fruit and vegetable and makes sure to plant seeds so that he can repeat the process anew in a few weeks time. A garden is a metaphor for a lot of things: growth, persistence, and the constant battle against entr

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