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New to the garden? Here's how to find your way around.
How this garden works
This is a digital garden â a working notebook where ideas grow over time. Nothing here is finished. Everything is evolving. Notes move through stages of maturity:
| Stage | What it means |
|---|---|
| ðą Seed | A raw capture â a quote, a question, a fragment worth keeping |
| ðŋ Plant | A developing idea with structure, connections, and open questions |
| ðē Evergreen | A durable insight â polished, reusable, ready to share |
| ðŠī Grove | A curated cluster of related notes â a pathway through a theme |
| ðģ Forest | A big-picture synthesis â what multiple Groves mean together |
Not every idea reaches every stage. That's the point â growth is selective.
Recommended starting points
ðģ The big picture
Start with the Digital Literacy Forest â the synthesis connecting privacy, sovereignty, resilience, and AI literacy into a coherent argument about collective digital self-determination.
ðŠī Explore a theme
Browse the Groves â curated clusters on topics like Digital Resilience, Privacy by Design, AI Literacy, and Security Culture.
ð Read my book notes
The Books collection has 171 notes with summaries, reflections, and connections to ideas in the garden.
ðĻ Follow along
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How to navigate
- Follow links. Notes are densely connected. Click any link to follow a thread.
- Use search. Press Ctrl+K (or â+K) to search the entire garden.
- Check the nav. The top bar links to the main sections: Evergreens, Groves, Books, Newsletter.
- Look at backlinks. At the bottom of each note, you'll see which other notes link back to it.
There's no right way to read a garden. Wander. See what connects.