On Digital Gardens, Blogs, Personal Spaces, and the Future

A lot of the work in building Sublime has been, what do I want from the web? And personally, I want to follow my curiosity wherever it leads . Without sifting through mountains of clickbait and SEO and content designed to feed an algorithm, I want to mindfully collect the pieces of the internet that resonate with me. And I want to do this in a spac... See more

the whole point of digital gardens is that they can grow and change, and that various pages on the same topic can coexist. “It’s less about iterative learning and more about public learning,”

Whenever you stumble upon an interesting thought on another site, write about it and link to it. Not only is it respectful to link to the person you quoted, but hyperlinks are also the magic force holding the Web together. They are both helpful and powerful. You can also add a links section to your site, where you collect interesting links you foun... See more

Tom Critchlow, a consultant who has been cultivating his digital garden for years, spells out the main difference between old-school blogging and digital gardening. “With blogging, you’re talking to a large audience,” he says. “With digital gardening, you’re talking to yourself. You focus on what you want to cultivate over time.”