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The Big Idea
The digital world has a shape to it just like the interior of our minds. We might not always be able to point at it but we have all lived within the walls of what is as is not possible in the digital world. Digital Gardening is a helpful way to reimagine what the digital would should or could look like. Rather than feeds and notifications and all the constant busy chatter. What if we aim to make digital spaces that are quiet and reflective? A grove of sorts. A collection of thoughts, ideas, concepts, notes and experiences.
Connected by the Roots
Therefore, these kinds of quieter digital spaces could be a little like a blog, but also very different. The basic concept of this site was inspired by the idea of Digital Gardening. The main idea is to create a place to plant ideas and let them grow gradually. Rather than posting content that gets sent off into the torrent of data around us, a garden looks at a note as something meant to be revisited, edited, and expanded.
In other words, this is not a chronological feed of writings, but a living network of notes I have gathered and continue to write. There is no grand organizational topic other than things that I find interesting and useful.
I think the reason this concept resonates with me is that it mirrors my lived experience of thinking and developing ideas. No idea is at its best the first time you scribble it down. But over time a small idea can grow into something powerful.
Therefore the nature of this garden can be summarized with the following points:
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No note is finished: This follows The Iterative Nature of Learning. I have added clues to the start of notes to help you see how I view them and if I have put much work into them or not. You can find more details about this here: The Organization of My Digital Garden
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Notes are interconnected: This allows for Topological Navigation by using links that connect related ideas together. This creates a kind of map that allows for navigation around the garden by following paths of ideas. You can think of this a lot like going for a physical walk in a garden.
By structuring this site according to these concepts, I hope to explore a different way of “Being” in digital space.
I also hope that this space can be the start for collaboration on ideas and projects. A few thoughts I have on this can be found here: Christian Collaboration
Some other similar notes: Inhabiting Shared Space A Theology of Technology Patterns of Liturgy-The Rhythm of Life Models of Human Rhythms