For many years I collected thoughts, notes, reflections and inspiration in various notebooks, sketchbooks and boxes as opportunity and availability allowed. In mid-2021 I began transposing them into a virtual space where they can be organized, critiqued, and connected. I later discovered this to be consistent with the early internet tradition of the [digital garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history/). As someone who makes his living in landscape design, this analogy helped me embrace my writing process as a predominately messy affair marked by brief periods of completion. ![[sketch_thoughtGarden.png|600]]What you have before you are my notes. Here I am pursuing an **ecology of mind**, attempting to understand the relationships between my own thoughts, those of others, and the cultural context from which they emerge. There is a growing trend toward "[working in public](https://public.digital/2022/01/21/what-does-working-in-the-open-mean)" championed by the open-source software community, but reflective of my experience working on boats and in boatbuilding shops ([[Open Shop Policy]]). This philosophy promotes transparency in production, cultivates integrity in the craftsman, and informs the public on process as opposed to product. I prefer to think of this more as "[[failing in public]]." Writing with others in mind is part of my process of [[make the note make sense|making the note make sense]]. My notes contain **[[psychological law of resonance|resonant information]]**, meaning encounters with people or media that piqued my curiosity and interest, and that felt worthy of recording and connecting to other dimensions of thought. My research and writing naturally falls somewhere in between academic rigor and verbal diarrhea. I find sifting through every citation in a literature review distracting from the spirit of its content, and I try to remove that distraction for myself. I do my best to attribute credit to the original ideas that I draw from but prioritize allowing myself the freedom to write what I feel is relevant. I link to supporting evidence during the [[Revision]] process, and sometimes things slip through the cracks. More information about how I cite sources is available on the [[fact checking]] page. If you find any of this is interesting, feel free to [contact](mailto:[email protected]) me. I welcome all constructive and direct feedback.