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This is a guide to help others, especially co-workers, better understand my personality, character traits and preferred ways of interaction with the aim of letting us work together better. It is a living document and subject to change, so I recommend…
Our knowledge about any given subject will never be complete, no matter how skilled or knowledgeable we are about it. We are always learning and constantly refining our understanding of the world. Blogs, articles, research papers; These are all highl…
Digital gardens are a lot like wikis. Like wikis, Digital Gardens are non-hierarchical. The main difference I see is that wikis are often edited collaboratively by collective groups of people pursuing the same goals or interests. Digital gardens on t…
Traditional websites are often structured in a semi-rigid, hierarchical fashion. They feature navigation menus in which pages are laid out in a tree structure. Many digital gardens however do away with this prearranged hierarchy. Digital Gardens are …
Many Digital Gardens consist of multiple notes or pages on different topics. As knowledge accumulates, new notes are written which build upon the existing body of content (Zettelkasten promotes reuse). As this collection grows over time, notes start …
Some people keep their digital gardens entirely private. They don't publish their notes and refer to them only for personal uses. Others maintain entirely public gardens, doing all of their work online for anyone to see. Yet others (like myself) pref…
Mark Baker wrote a book called Every Page is Page One. I haven't yet read it, but the book looks at how people consume information online, and goes into how web content isn't consumed like a book, but rather as individual snippets from different sour…
This is a more detailed explanation of my core values, extracted from my Personal Manual. These values govern a lot of my behavior and help explain why I do things the way I do.
I choose to publish some of the notes from my personal knowledgebase here on my website, creating a sort of Digital Garden. By sharing my notes publicly in this way, others can benefit from my knowledge and experience. Even if the same information is…
Digital Gardens are tightly interwoven. As concepts within a digital garden consolidate, entry pages and summary notes get constructed to provide overviews. These overviews condense topics and link to more detailed notes for deeper exploration. As mo…