Been rethinking how I read, not just what I read.

Started with a professor’s curated readings → https://faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/
Then stumbled into personal systems like https://malcolmocean.com/myhabits/

From there, it branches:

- What to read → https://agentyduck.blogspot.com/p/noticing.html
- How to interpret → The Great Gatsby essays (Atlantic / NYT revisiting it 100 years later)
- How to create → https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-make-a-book/
- And even: what blogging looks like in 10 years → https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/blogiversary-what-will-this-blog-look-like-in-10-years-part-10-of-10.htm

Pattern I’m seeing:
Reading isn’t consumption — it’s a system:
curation → interpretation → creation → reflection.

Most people stop at step one.

#reading #learning #writing #digitalgardens #selfeducation #systemsThinking

Stumbled into a corner of the internet that still feels like the old web — personal blogs, weird tools, zero algorithmic sludge.

Started here (Ask HN):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

Then down the rabbit hole:
https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs
https://hnpwd.github.io/

Signal vs junk is real — but occasionally you find gems like susam.net (and even a clean little typing tutor tucked inside).

And if you want to go deeper:
Archive Team → https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

Pattern: the good internet still exists. It just isn’t surfaced for you anymore.

#indieweb #blogging #internet #digitalgardens #curation #archives

The Work Isn't Finished, It's Abandoned: Thoughts on WIP Pages | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-work-isnt-finished-its-abandoned-thoughts-on-wip-pages/

#DigitalGardens #IndieWeb #WebCulture #PersonalEssay

What are people’s experiences with #digitalgardens If you have one, do you use it for your own reference often? Have you made friends through it? Does it help you write / accomplish some other task?

Looking to hear from folks who have abandoned their gardens as well please

#digitalgarden #digitalgardening

Hahah I realise that's my pic in that graphic! First, thank you @hyde for reaching out to me, and putting up with my forgetfulness. In this post I talk about #digitalgardens and #socialmedia and tea!

But I want to say that I really love his initiative. I read a post today about how urgent it is for human beings to stop relying on algorithms for content recommendations, and that we should go back to human curators, and @hyde is doing this. It's really time consuming, by the way, so I really applaud all the work he's putting in.

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029/

#Tech #Indieweb

#OverUnder 029 with @liztai !

She shared her views on:

- #DigitalGardens
- #RSS
- #SocialMedia
- #Books
- #Tea

#blog #fediverse #mastodon #bookstodon

#100DaysToOffload : 075/100

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-029

I added a digital garden section to my site! https://reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-garden/

I'm using it to put tutorials, research/project notes, and other things that I will return to and build on over time. In the process, I found a useful plugin for Eleventy (https://github.com/photogabble/eleventy-plugin-interlinker) that lets me use wikilinks as I would in Obsidian, making it easier to link my notes together.

#WebDev #IndieWeb #DigitalGardens #DigitalGarden #Eleventy #11ty