For many years I've been curating a personal knowledge system. I started in notebooks and bullet journals in college, migrated to Evernote in grad school, then to Roam, and then finally, I've landed in Obsidian. For many years this has been my personal companion or second brain and my diligence has ebbed and flowed with the pace of life. More recently (dare I say...midlife?) I've become more and more drawn to the idea of thinking in public. Working in growth and marketing, I'm often required to think about work in pursuit of polished completion. I've found over the years that this is a constraint incumbent on me via the profession, and it's very rarely how thinking and learning actually works for me. It's most often non-linear and emergent, and as a result, I've never been able to "blog" without deeply resenting the practice and the outputs. That alone has kept me from any meaningful attempt at writing publicly for the last 5 years, and I think my life is less rich for it. Managing a personal knowledge system in public removes some of these barriers for me in that it is expressly *unpolished.* So, on to the terms of service, as it were. ## If you've found your way here, consider this the disclaimer > [!quote]+ > A Digital Garden is your very own place (often a blog, or twitter account) to plant incomplete thoughts and disorganized notes in public - the idea being that these are evergreen things that grow as your learning does, warmed by constant attention and fueled by the unambiguous daylight of peer review. Here's a good write-up about [how to engage with digital gardens](https://www.swyx.io/digital-garden-tos). I find these ideas generally apply. You might summarize this as: the primary goal of any digital garden is *learning,* as opposed to the primary goal of most online content, *earning.* This comes with caveats, and demands of the reader a granting of space. It's all personal, but there's certainly a blurry line between what's public and what's private. As it is, you may find some links in the graph that are dead ends, from both incompletion or omission. That's just how it be. One of the greatest discoveries I've found with time is just how big and unfathomable the world is, and with that discovery I've found a profound comfort with unknowing, drawn to concepts like [[📖 AntiLibrary|antilibraries]] as ways to celebrate this vast universe of possible. This is a space to grapple with that vast universe.