digital garden

Archived Writing

Garden:

Oxford Dictionary definition: a small piece of ground used to grow vegetables, fruit, herbs, or flowers.

The word digital in this case is already self-explanatory.

The term digital garden pertains to a place wherein I could plant ideas.

Now, the verb gardening is not merely limited to growing plants. Gardening could also be cutting grass, removing roots, trimming extraneous leaves from plants, etc.

Hence, the plants that I tend to in a digital garden are ideas that I would cut, trim, discard and develop over the long term.

A digital garden is a repository wherein a digital gardener stores his nascent thoughts with the intention to develop them in the future. A digital garden is not limited to a single, precise definition, but it remains true to the following characteristics:

1. Digital gardens are constructive, rather than destructive.
2. Digital gardens encourage thinking.
3. Digital gardens evolve over time.