About this garden

This isn't a blog. A blog is a feed — dated posts, newest on top, each one finished the day it ships and never touched again. A digital garden is the opposite: a small web of notes I actually keep tending, where the interesting thing is how an idea grows, not the day it was first written down. The idea, and the ethos below, comes from Maggie Appleton's history of the digital garden.

Notes grow, they don't get published

Every note here has a stage — an honest signal of how finished the thinking is, not how long or how polished the writing is:

• 🌱 Seedling — a rough first thought, just planted. Might be wrong, definitely incomplete.
• 🌿 Budding — developing. I've come back to it, given it structure, started to believe it.
• 🌳 Evergreen — reasonably complete. Something I'd stand behind and send you to — though I'll keep tending it.

So calibrate how much to trust a note by its stage. And I'd rather under-claim than over-claim: a note caught between two stages gets the lower one.

When a note grows up

Maturing is deliberate, not automatic. A note earns its next stage when:

• Seedling → Budding — I've come back to it at least once, it has real structure instead of one raw block, and I actually know what I'm claiming, even if gaps remain.
• Budding → Evergreen — it makes its point coherently start to finish, I'd reference it or send it to someone, only refinement is left, and it's linked into the rest of the garden.

Most notes live at seedling or budding for a long time — that's the point, not a backlog. And evergreen isn't frozen: if a note's core idea changes on me, it drops back to budding while I rework it.

Tended, not published

Instead of a publish date, each note shows when it was planted and last tended. The index is sorted by tended — so what surfaces is whatever I've been thinking about lately, not whatever happens to be newest.

It's a web, not a list

Notes link to each other, and every note shows what links back to it. That's the real point of a garden: following a thought sideways into the next one. Start anywhere — say, Owning the whole thing — and wander.