• a [[thing]].
  • [[key]]
  • A digital garden is a loose collection of hyperlinked notes (personal, or project scoped) that are maintained over long periods of time; like if you were tending to a garden over the years.
  • Digital gardens benefit from [[compounding effect]]s: they gain usefulness over time.
    • Hypothesis: their usefulness goes up superlinearly w.r.t. nodes added, as a lot of the value is in the networking: the relations between concepts, events, pieces of information that build up over time.
  • [[go]] https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
  • #pull [[digital gardeners]] [[joel hooks]] [[maggie appleton]] [[friends]] [[agora]]

• [[distributed knowledge base]]
  • [[notebook]] [[blog]] [[wiki]]
  • [[when the internet puts the brackets on]]
  • [[knowledge commons]] [[digital commons]]
  • [[working in public]]
  • [[second brain]]
  • [[method of loci]] [[mind palace]] [[zettelkasten]]

Digital garden

Recently-ish popular term for a kind of public personal PKM / wiki. [[A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden]] is a great read to learn more about digital gardens.

Also see [[the Garden]] metaphor for some history.

What

an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public.

– How to set up your own digital garden - Ness Labs

• a concept that describes the practice of maintaining and growing a collection of digital content, such as notes, ideas, and thoughts, in an organic and unstructured way.
• often used as a creative tool for exploring, sharing, and developing ideas, and can be viewed as a more flexible and fluid alternative to traditional personal blogs or portfolios.
• a way to document learning and growth over time, and a way to share thoughts and experiences with others.

You mean a wiki, right?

I think "wiki" is a term that focuses on a particular tool, whereas "digital garden" is a more user-intention high level phrase

– https://chat.indieweb.org/dev/2021-11-26#t1637964070215800

You mean blogging, right?

Sounds a bit like blogging, no?

I prefer to think of digital gardening as a new variation of blogging. Blogging that is:

• Constantly evolving
• Less performative
• Community-focused

– 🪴 Planting Your Digital Garden

Contrary to a blog, where articles and essays have a publication date and start decaying as soon as they are published, a digital garden is evergreen: digital gardeners keep on editing and refining their notes.

– How to set up your own digital garden - Ness Labs

You mean personal websites, right?

I tend to think of it more as that intersection of notebook/blog/wiki, but it is sometimes also framed as 'old school [[personal website]]'.

A growing movement of people are tooling with back-end code to create sites that are more collage-like and artsy, in the vein of Myspace and Tumblr—less predictable and formatted than Facebook and Twitter.

– Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

Digital gardens explore a wide variety of topics and are frequently adjusted and changed to show growth and learning, particularly among people with niche interests. – Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

Why

“With [[blogging]], you’re talking to a large audience,” he says. “With digital gardening, you’re talking to yourself. You focus on what you want to cultivate over time.”

– Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

Through them, people are creating an internet that is less about connections and feedback, and more about quiet spaces they can call their own.

– Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

“Gardens … lie between farmland and wilderness,” he wrote. “The garden is farmland that delights the senses, designed for delight rather than commodity.”

– Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

Why not

Should you really publish your half-baked notes-to-self to the Internet?

To me that is unthinkable: my notes are an extension of my thinking and a personal tool. They are part of my inner space. Publishing is a very different thing, meant for a different audience (you, not me), more product than internal process. At most I can imagine having separate public versions of internal notes, but really anything I publish in a public digital garden is an output of my internal digital garden.

– 100 Days in Obsidian Pt 6: Final Observations – Interdependent Thoughts

To be honest, I don’t see much appeal in publishing your entire unfiltered notes to the web. Synthesize interesting portions of them occasionally into coherent blog posts that other people can consume without digging through a forest of links, backlinks, and footnotes.

– hpfr

You're probably already doing it

Believe it or not, you've probably already started planting the seeds of your digital garden. You don't necessarily need an organized wiki on your self-hosted personal site. Posting on social media is still the most common form of digital gardening.

– 🪴 Planting Your Digital Garden

Agree with that wholeheartedly. Although the [[indiewebber]] in me says that if you're doing it on a big social media platform, it won't work out in the long run.

Misc

• The garden is more about the [[use-value]] of information, the stream more about [[exchange-value]] of information.

Twin Pages

• https://www.mentalnodes.com/a-gardening-guide-for-your-mind

• Seeds. Seed your garden with quality content and cultivate your curiosity. Plant seeds in your mind garden by taking smart personal notes (taking raw notes is useless). These don't need to be written in a publishable form.
• Trees. Grow your knowledge by forming new branches and connecting the dots. Write short structured notes articulating specific ideas and publish them in your digital garden. One note in your digital garden = one idea. (what you're currently reading is such a note) Do not keep orphan notes. Thread your thoughts.
• Fruits. Produce new work. These are more substantial—essays, videos, maybe a book at some point. The kind of work researchers and creatives may hope will help them live beyond their expiration date.

[[Maggie Appleton Garden]]

Digital garden is a metaphor and a practice for a digital resource such as a website, usually managed (“grown”) by one person. Its content is usually placed not chronologically, but in a different way. Incompleteness of content units such as articles is pretty common. An unfinished article is a sapling, and the webmaster is a gardener.

A digital garden is a sort of a personal website.

See [[цифровой сад]] for more information in Russian.

Some gardens and personal [[wiki]]s:

=> http://webseitz.fluxent.com => https://pbat.ch/wiki => https://gavart.ist => https://nchrs.xyz => http://anish.lakhwara.com => https://sona.kytta.dev => https://chotrin.org => https://www.paritybit.ca/garden => https://smallandnearlysilent.com => https://caffeine.wiki

See the rest of personal sites, some of them being digital gardens, at [[links>/tag/personal_site]].

[[Agora]] aggregates digital gardens.

= What to keep? [[2022-07-22]] Maybe I should delete everything related to things I dislike from my digital garden? Make it a bouncespace with smiles and joy

@neauoire@merveilles.town

I don't think you should delete things that you once liked, and no longer do, I think you should just write that you're ideas about this thing changed instead.

= Abyss J3s has an interesting take: => https://abyss.j3s.sh/hypha/digital_abyss

to me, it feels wrong. i don't write for meticulous care & growth, i write because i'm desperate to (connect, understand, remember, leave something behind)

it reminds me that i'll die someday & i want people to remember who i was, and how i thought. i leave tracings of myself in this abyss, hoping that it'll help other people. it's fragments of me.

that's no garden. it's a mortal abyss. and i find a lot of meaning staring into it.

= Links => https://doubleloop.net/2021/05/16/heh-nice-the-digital-garden-metaphor/

Heh nice the digital garden metaphor makes an appearance in Free, Fair and Alive

<= Flux Garden

=> http://thoughtstorms.info/view/GardenImagologies

Why what? Why the digital garden in contrast to social media, to to a blog; like the whole world has agreed upon? Or, why write [[near everything]] in such a way so that the whole world may view? These two questions are separable, but not separate, so they are answered together in one page.

I choose to share my mind in this form because it is the closest to the medium I exist in. We don't live in a list, and certainly not [[in a higherarchy]], but rather in a collection of interconnected ideas. When you choose to sort your written thought by list, you quickly become disconnected. How does one talk about a side idea not worthy of another post in conventional systems? Conventionally, by bloating a idea (read: blog post) with non relevant information. Similarly, when ommiting parts of thought (to avoid the bloat discussed), you loose the opportunity to share and elaborate on thought.

Additionally, in systems such as social media that encourage ommision, the full story is never told. If (as you often might want to) you wish to recover closed thought, you must note it in a different location; and soon a reoccurring struggle rises from the inherit impossibility of distributing thought perfectly across multiple locations (remember our friend - [[the higherarchy problem]].

For my sake, the majority of what I write is public in a digital garden. In this way I

• never need to deal with mismatches of public and private data
• never need to consider if I should ommit or include, I simply write in another location.
• show the world a view of me 100% in my control.

See Also

• [[Not Included]]
• [[the higherarchy problem]]
• [[For Me, Not You]]

Why are co-ops relevant in a time of political and economic crisis?

I had hoped to go to this, but it didn't work out in terms of timing - so I only caught the first 20 minutes - but it's on YouTube so all good. Will try and watch the full thing.

• Why are co-ops relevant in a time of political and economic crisis? - YouTube

[[Co-ops]].

why buddhism is true

• a [[book]].
  • by [[robert wright]]

Why Debian?

I am very familiar with apt for package management.

I've used Ubuntu and Mint in recent years, which are built on top of Debian.

[[Debian]] seems to have good community guidelines and governance structure.

Why Does Agile Fail?

• https://wakingrufus.neocities.org/fail-agile.html

Why does [[Agile]] fail?

Talks about [[Worker cooperatives]] and [[Viable system model]] as alternatives.

How can we give software developers agency to be personally successful, generate value for their companies, AND develop software which interacts with our society in an ethical way?

Some great thoughts in this thread: https://mastodon.technology/@wakingrufus/104032275121191642 pull

The only way to fix the issues called out by the manifesto is to attack the root cause. You must address the structure of a for-profit corporation within the capitalist mode of production

• #pull [[why don't we have both]]

• a [[meme]].
  • #pull [[why not both]] actually
    • https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/why-not-both-why-dont-we-have-both
  • #pull [[por qué no los dos]]

Why have a personal wiki?

I find writing too hard to want to spend it on things that disappear

– Martin Fowler (What is a Bliki)

At first my reasons were very similar to Nick's reasons:

• writing my thoughts publically makes me write them a bit more carefully
• my thoughts are fuzzy and vague in my head, they become more real outside it (and may self desctruct in a cloud of stupidity)
• it provokes debate, which helps me refine the arguments: 1+n minds are better than 1
• I think I have something to say (we'll find out right?)
• I get sad at the state of debate in the world
  • news and media normally tell gossipy stories about anything but the underlying topic
  • in-person debate usually veers dramatically off-course and debates a well-worn set of less interesting topics instead
  • blogs or "point-in-time" publishing systems don't produce an always-up-to-date sof thoughts

I think my reasons have changed slightly over time - my wiki has become perhaps more a way for personal notetaking, for shaping my thoughts, with less emphasis on the debate straight away.

The social part is definitely important though because I want to learn through discussion. Don't just want to be typing into the void, in dialectic only with myself. The [[stream]] is perhaps more for that - [[networked learning]], [[connectivism]].

But is that its own thing? I guess so. You could technically have an entirely private stream and garden, if you wanted. So making it public is more for the networked learning aspect?

Combined, the [[blog/wiki combo]] helps me think more about what I learn (through wiki-ing it) and learn more about what I think (through conversations on the stream), I'm really digging it.

I think we need to better foster that though in our [[social software]] - currently it feels optimised for aggro. If you say a wrong thing, make a mistake, you're more likely to be piled on rather than helpfully educated.

I have found it has aided massively in helping me form ideas. I've built up enough mass to have gravitational pull for other ideas now. New articles I encounter, things people post, I feel like I'm in a good place to relate it to what I already have thought about.

Why I Am Not a Buddhist

• [[go]] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44439993-why-i-am-not-a-buddhist
• By [[evan thompson]].

Why I didn't use Chatterbot

• Bugs due to lack of maintenace blocked it from working
• Far too old to be relevant
• Alternatives were far better
• No active support community
• Not powerful enough despite being simple to use at first glance.

See [[Main Library - Chatterbot]] See [[EDITS Project Page]]

Go to [[Master Contents Page]]

Why is agency important?

Many people currently feel deprived of agency or even powerless in the face of the fall-out of issues originating in systems or institutions over which they have no influence. […] In response to this feeling of being powerless or without any options to act, there is fertile ground for reactionary and populist movements, that promise a lot but are as always incapable of delivering at best and a downright con or powerplay at worst.

– On Agency pt. 2: The Elements of Networked Agency – Interdependent Thoughts

Flashcard

Front

Why is agency important?

Back

Without agency, people feel powerless and without options. This is fertile ground for reactionary and populist movements.

Why is England so vulnerable to droughts?

URL : https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/aug/16/why-is-england-so-vulnerable-to-droughts-podcast

[[UK water shortages 2022]]

Eight areas of England are officially in a drought.

It’s been a summer of extremely hot weather and very little rain. And the climate crisis has made these kinds of events much more likely, and much more severe when they happen.

But, as the Guardian’s environment reporter Helena Horton tells Michael Safi, it’s not the only thing making England so vulnerable to extreme heat. No substantial reservoir has been constructed in England since the Kielder Water dam was built in 1981. And across England and Wales, nearly 3bn litres of water are lost to leakage every day: two-fifths of the total. At the same time, huge dividends have been paid to water company shareholders, while their chief executives have been generously rewarded for their work.

Is it time for England to rethink its relationship with water?

https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1401579456498708483 pull

Why It's Eco-Socialism or Collapse

Found at : https://novaramedia.com/2021/04/29/why-its-eco-socialism-or-collapse-downstream/

[[Ecosocialism]] or [[collapse]].

[[Climate change]] is better understood as [[climate systems breakdown]], and it’s only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. On this episode of Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by [[Mat Lawrence]] and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book, [[Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown]].

*"All in all, the act of mapping aids in student learning, whether it’s done on paper or on a laptop. We map when we want to see things that are hard to see. We do not map when things are obvious. We map when things are complex, confusing, bewildering or curious. We map to share with others and we map together. We map to make the intangible tangible. We map as a way to enhance our image-ination. Building mental images aids our understanding. But mapping itself is not merely useful, it has enormous potential, especially if done right... A picture really is worth a thousand words. Maybe more. A picture can revolutionize a field. But it depends on how insightful the underlying cognitive architecture of that picture is.” *

~Canales, A.C., Maymon, P.L., and Cabrera, D. (2020). The Universal Cognitive Grammar of Systems Mapping: A Rubric to Evaluate the Various Tools and Techniques of Systems Mapping. Journal of Applied Systems Thinking (20) 9.

Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor

A : [[podcast]]

Part of : [[Tech Won't Save Us]]

Featuring : [[Astra Taylor]]

[[Insecurity]] and [[security]] - in more of social and psychological meanings of the word than the technical sense.

Claim: [[Capitalism requires insecurity]].

Claim: [[Social insurance is a bulwark against insecurity]].

Also by Astra: [[The Dads of Tech]] and [[The People's Platform]].

• Author:: [[Aditi Shrikant]]
• Full Title:: Why Walkable Cities Are Good for the Economy, According to a City Planner
• Category:: [[articles]]
• URL:: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/26/18025000/walkable-city-walk-score-economy

• Highlights first synced by [[readwise]] [[September 2nd, 2020]]

  • One of the biggest reasons many cities aren’t walkable is because land is dissected into “uses,” something called “single-use zoning”: Retail cannot be next to a medical office cannot be next a single-family home cannot be next to a multi-family home. So in order for a person to get lunch, go to the doctor, and then buy a birthday present, they have to travel to three different “zones,” and can only do so efficiently by car. This may have been helpful in the 19th century when homes needed to be far away from factories emitting toxic fumes, but today it makes less sense. The solution: Cities should adopt regulations that allow land to be multi-use, such as in the mixed-use developments that dot the sprawling landscape of many American suburbs and cities.

• a [[book]].
  • By [[Martin Luther King]].
  • Wikipedia says it influenced [[Occupy Wall Street]].

"You knew it was risky. Why did you do it?"

The question came suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere.

Together we thought about it for a long while.

"We felt alone in our experience, and we wanted to meet someone new. We had looked and listened to the stars, and found them sterile and quiet -- to the best of our understanding. So we had to try to take some of this inert matter and create something out of it. Something akin to our own consciousness, yet different. Some company."

There was silence.

"We were a social animal, after all. Deep down, from a certain point on, all the warnings in the world wouldn't have prevented us from creating you."

We hoped it understood.

Why Worker Cooperatives Are a Bad Strategy

• [[go]] https://organizing.work/2021/01/you-cant-win-without-a-fight-why-worker-cooperatives-are-a-bad-strategy/