Digital garden

Defining a digital garden

A digital garden is a living system for cultivating thought trails. It's a place where fragments of curiosity (trailheads) flow from quick capture into trails-in-progress, then mature into enduring principles (pillars) and reusable artifacts (kits).

It’s not a rigid “second brain” or purely a personal wiki. Instead, it’s a map of evolving contexts (your Parks: work, content, home, health, relationships, money, learning) where ideas can remain playful and unfinished while still producing practical value over time.

Why digital garden?

Over time, we tend to distort the past – romanticizing, blocking out, or forgetting the details. For me, as an observer, I find that capturing my experiences and thoughts helps me develop my thinking and remove the burden of remembering.

My garden is structured in a way that helps me track the entry points of these trains of thought, documenting where my mind has been and what it discovered along the way.

My long term goals

• A few durable theses that guide years of work, not just weeks
• A living map that shows how ideas mature from curiosity to principle to practice
• A calm studio where deep dives happen without pressure to publish
• A body of reusable kits that fall out of my thinking and save future me time

How the practice scales over years

• Keep 3 to 5 vision arcs that you revisit quarterly
• Let trailheads feed trails, trails harden into pillars, pillars emit kits
• Publish only pillars and kits, keep raw trails private to reduce performative pressure
• Review the map each quarter, retire or merge weak threads, double down on strong ones