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Organizing this Space

Just jotting down some principles on how and why this is not-a-blog. Rather than organizing chronologically (a web-log), digital gardens rely on curation and revision of ideas that grow over time or get pruned out.

  1. People Grow and Change, So Should Ideas. Therefore, anything here might change, move, or be marked as out-of-date. If an idea is worth exploring, the written documentation is worth nurturing over time.
  2. Limited Reactive Content. The problem with "someone is wrong on the internet" is that someone is always wrong on the internet. Frequently, it's me. Using blogs to talk-back at other blogs often ends up a inside conversation that should be kept to comment boxes or one-on-one conversation.
  3. Organize by Topic, Not by Recency. Explore how topics link together rather than create content for content's sake.
  4. Use Streams for Quick Takes, Vents, and Reactions. I'm lucky enough to have spaces for sharing quick thoughts, which are better fielded in smaller groups.
  5. Index and Curate; Don't Tag. Rather than tag based on what I think might be useful in the future, I can index around evolving themes after the fact. Ideas that already have a place can go into a folder with siblings.
  6. Avoid! Comments and metrics.