You could call this a digital garden if you were inclined.A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that are not strictly organized by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing.

First and foremost, this is not a blog. A blog is the slave to the tyranny of the timeline. The primary focus of a blog is a linear timeline of content (often produced under self-inflicted writing deadlines) that creates endless blogspam designed solely to be a product consumed by eyeballs for attention.

Instead, these are my working notes. My interests and questions and ideas and mistakes, out here in the open for everyone to see. And hopefully for everyone to iterate on, respond to, correct, polish, and make better.

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, episode “Sweet Dee Has a Heart Attack”, Oct 30, 2008

Secondly, this is meant to be personal, individual, non- (and probably even anti-) commercial. This is not a content marketing strategy, a social media engagement play, or an attention funnel to get you to my other projects. It’s just some cool stuff I am into and think about, and play with linking together in my head until I become Charlie Day hunting Pepe Silvia through libraries and used book stores and record crates and piles of old note cards until maybe one day a book or a website or something entirely new grows out of it.

Starting Points

…a few selected ways to start wandering through my garden