🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog
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🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog
What makes a garden is interesting. It's personal. Things are organized and orderly, but with a touch of chaos around the edges.
joelhooks.com • 🌱 My Blog Is a Digital Garden, Not a Blog
I guess what I’m trying to say in this essay is: I’m awed and surprised and deeply pleased that this turned out to be a good strategy. You don’t have to be a content farm to find a community of readers; you can just put your heart into making unreasonably thorough stuff.
Henrik Karlsson • When I Have a Slower Publishing Cadence My Blog Grows Faster
Think of it as a spectrum. Things we dump into private WhatsApp group chats, DMs, and cavalier Tweet threads are part of our chaos streams - a continuous flow of high noise / low signal ideas. On the other end we have highly performative and cultivated artefacts like published books that you prune and tend for years. Gardening sits in the middle. I... See more
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
In a techno-social world that is dominantly organized by the pressures of linear feeds, we need digital spaces and frameworks that celebrate the ideas that are seeds just as much as the fully formed blooms.