How This Garden Works

This site is a digital garden rather than a conventional blog or portfolio. A queer meadow of ideas and inklings. I’ll collect my thoughts here.

A blog often assumes a finished sequence: publish, archive, move on. A garden works differently. It allows ideas to remain alive, partial, and connected. Notes can begin as fragments, grow draft by draft—through revision, cross-pollination with other notes, and sometimes they could become more finished essays.

I use this site to hold several kinds of work in one place: teaching notes, reading traces, research questions, writing craft reflections, and creative fragments. Some pages are brief and provisional. Some are more stable. Many are linked to one another because the shape of life and thought is not linear.

This garden is organized around a few principles:

1. Thinking in public, out loud

Not every note belongs online. But some unfinished notes become more useful when they can be linked, revisited, and shared.

2. Connection over chronology

I am less interested in a timeline of posts than in a web of relations: between books, courses, ideas, exercises, and drafts. When I find an artifact, I write quickly to discover what I think, then let it root awhile.

3. Revision as a form of attention

Older notes are not dead archives. They can be tended, expanded, contradicted, or rerouted/rerooted.

4. Multiple levels of finish

Some notes are seeds. Some are sprouts. Some are evergreen. The point is not uniform polish; the point is legibility, usefulness, and movement.

5. Writing as ecology

Thought does not develop in isolation. Notes grow through encounter: with students, books, places, conversations, and other forms of making.

If you are new here, a good place to start is the Now page or one of the curated Paths.

https://github.com/swyxio/digital-garden-tos

https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/11/19/joan-didion-on-keeping-a-notebook/