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The Why and How of this Digital Garden

This digital garden is my semi-public notebook (some pages are published, some are not) made via Obsidian and published via the Obsidian Digital Garden Plugin.

i will share my work online without dying inside and i will work with the garage door up, and this digital garden is part of that resolution.

It also lets me be imperfect and in progress. I have often struggled to tie my ideas up into neat packages, summarized in poignant thesis statements. Perhaps due to indecision, perfectionism, or the way that gaining knowledge always leads to more questions.

It is a digital extension of my large backlog of paper notebooks, though it primarily incorporates ideas from 2023-present. I do review my old paper notebooks and annotate them, and eventually I might digitize some of what still resonates from older notebooks to consolidate here. I am still trying to figure out my system for analog and digital knowledge management as someone who loves the experience of writing and creating in analog space, but appreciates Obsidian's ability to create connections between ideas.

I've been thinking a lot lately about art, social media, the public versus the private, the product versus the process. I have always been most interested in process, as it frees me in some ways from imperfection - from having to evaluate the final product as good or bad, though this is ultimately counterintuitive, as fearing finality also means hindering the ability to share my work.

In this digital garden, you'll find the following:

What projects I'm working on (via the now page, what struggles I'm coming up against, and my thoughts and the lessons learned along the way.