On digital gardens

A blog post is an event: published on a date, frozen, superseded by the next one. A garden note is a place: planted once, tended indefinitely, revised whenever I learn something that changes it.

The distinction matters because most of what I actually believe doesn’t fit the blog format. It’s not news. It’s a slowly-improving understanding of a handful of ideas I keep circling back to. Dating those entries would be a lie — the date would say “this is what I thought in March” when the note has been quietly rewritten four times since.

So the garden has no dates, only a last-tended timestamp, and notes link to each other rather than sitting in a feed. It’s meant to read as a graph of how the ideas connect, not a timeline of when I had them.

This note is itself a garden note, which means by the time you read it, it may already say something slightly different than it did when I planted it.