Welcome to My Digital Garden
This is my public notebook—a space where I grow ideas in the open. It’s part journal, part zine, part map. Some thoughts are half-formed, others are more rooted. Nothing here is final, and that’s the point.
🪐 Topics I’m Exploring
- northstar – guiding values and long-term direction
- reflections – personal insights and moments of clarity
- bookshelf – quotes, notes, and thoughts on what I’m reading
- spiritual – musings on meaning, mystery, and faith
- leadership – thoughts on influence, management, and people
- productivity – systems, habits, and doing better work
- travel – memories and learnings from the places I’ve been
- ux – product design, strategy, and user-centered thinking
🚀 Note Status Tags
Ideas here are tagged based on how developed they are:
- Launching 🚀 – early thoughts, mostly raw and exploratory
- Orbiting 🛰 – in development, with growing depth and connections
- Beacon 🌠 – established ideas that guide and anchor other notes
Some ideas change, merge, or get retired. But all of them reflect what I’m thinking about right now.
Author: Ali Abdaal URL: https://a.co/d/hj71LGc Created time: February 3, 2024
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