Why a digital garden?
A digital garden is a type of website that emphasises learning and growing in public. The main difference between it and most other websites is that it does not assume to be the finished item. It's not set in stone.Â
For me, here on my website, my digital garden is a loose collection of posts of ideas and topics that I'm thinking about. Anything here can change, grow and be refined. It can be deleted even if it's no longer relevant. Using the garden metaphor I'll plant seeds of ideas, come back and nurture the ones that get bigger and grow. I'll move ideas and thoughts around so they flourish in better areas. And when I feel they are ripe to harvest, that's when I imagine they will move to my main website as finished, complete posts.
My reasons for trying this way of working are as follows:
- I want to write more on this website. To get more ideas out of my head and onto paper pixels.
- I feel that recently I've been so focused on polish and perfection that I've written a lot less. I want to change that.
- I want to feel more free in my writing. To experiment and be creative.Â
- I'm hoping that by writing more, shorter, posts in the garden, I'll be able to see wider themes and patterns.
- I want to have a bit more fun again.Â
This page, and the digital garden, are and will always be a work in progress. Things will change, grow and mature. I will write things that later prove to be wrong. I'll make inevitable mistakes. But that's ok and natural.
So as you've found this link, do feel free to wander around regularly. I hope you find interesting things. And if you do and you want to add to the conversation or my thoughts and ramblings, please do let me know. At present it'll need to be as an email, but eventually I'm hoping to work out a commenting, discussion system.
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