This site is based on the concept of a [digital garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history/) that was particularly popular a few years ago. As the linked article states, a digital garden is: > *...a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing.* Or, essentially, a digital garden is a public notebook of interlinked ideas that is constantly tweaked and tended to. This space is in part a quiet pushback against the urge to wait until something is “finished” before sharing it - I can publish short notes on here without working them into full blown essays or articles. And I can capture my thoughts on the wide and ever changing range of things that my brain is interested in. I am also finding that the [[Research Workflow|workflow]] of refining my initial notes until they are suitable for publishing here significantly reduces the risk of [collector's fallacy](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/collectors-fallacy/#:~:text=Taking%20notes%20thoroughly%20means%20you,detail%20in%20the%20original%20text.&text=I%20did%20not%20do%20the%20job%20right%20the%20first%20time.&text=This%20is%20a%20first%20step,nothing%20to%20increase%20our%20knowledge.).