01perennial
Technology changes faster than our metaphors.
We keep describing new systems with old nouns: pages, files, agents, clouds, threads. Maybe the interesting work starts when the metaphors fail.
last watered: recently enough
a digital garden for unfinished things
Ideas are better growing.
Not everything needs to be a deliverable. Some things can be seeds, sketches, half-formed questions, strange little prototypes, or notes left in the soil for whoever comes by next.
click the soil
garden rule 01
“A thought does not need to be finished to be useful.”
The web used to feel more like this: paths, odd corners, personal pages, things made because someone wanted them to exist. This patch of internet keeps a little of that energy alive.
garden beds
Things currently growing here
Tap a card. They are intentionally not all the same shape.
02shade-loving
Make room for weird little tools.
Not every useful thing needs a roadmap, a launch plan, a growth strategy, or a dashboard.
03volunteer
Good questions compost certainty.
Turn them over. Let some air in.
04cross-pollinated
found between engineering / design / security / art / “what if?”
Boundaries are often where the interesting bugs live.
05annual
A tiny protocol for making things:
- notice something
- make a rough version
- show someone
- be changed by their reaction
- repeat until it becomes something else
seed laboratory
Plant something temporary.
Write a thought. It will grow on this page, in this browser, and nowhere else. No account. No database. No engagement funnel.
compost heap
Things we’re allowed to discard.
Dead ends feed the next attempt. Drag any of these into the heap, or click them if dragging feels like work.
drop here
You have reached the back fence.
There is no conversion event here.