Blogs are structured around time. You publish something, it lives at a date, and it slowly becomes stale. A digital garden is different — it’s organized around ideas that grow and evolve.
The Problem with Blogs
My old blog posts from 2017-2021 feel frozen in time. Some contain ideas I’ve since refined, techniques I’ve improved upon, or perspectives that have shifted. But the blog format doesn’t invite updates — it treats each post as a finished product.
What a Garden Offers
A garden lets me:
- Start small — publish a seedling idea without pressure to write a complete essay
- Grow over time — revisit and expand notes as my understanding deepens
- Connect ideas — link notes across topics, creating a web of knowledge
- Show the process — not just polished results, but the messy path of learning
This Site as a Garden
The “Flower” theme of this site was always a garden metaphor waiting to happen. Now it’s explicit: seedlings sprout, ideas grow, and some become evergreen references.
This essay itself is a seedling. I’ll keep tending it.