Digital Gardening is not about creating finished works for presentation to an audience. It is a non-performative act. Like a real garden, it can be public or private. The important thing is that it is a personal space to tend to information and ideas over time to allow them to flourish. It is about process rather than structure or permanence.
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Many Great Works Are Unfinished
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It is not true that only finished works hold value. An idea, or collection of ideas can be world-changing even if incomplete. Take ‘Being and Nothingness’ or ‘Being and Time’ for example. Both books had profound impacts on the field of philosophy and broader culture as a whole. At the same time, both authors promised a part 2 or conclusion that never came. This is because the nurturing and craft of intellectual development is not linear. It is an iterative and messy process. Thought itself requires a is meandering of the mind. Digital Gardening embraces this messy reality, rather than ignore or fight against it. It pulls back the curtain on the authentic, evolving nature of thought.
John Cleese’s 5 Factors For Creativity
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Digital gardening is perfectly aligned with John Cleese’s 5 keys to creativity which valued space and time in the first 3 spots. A digital garden provides the space as a personal, distraction-free environment to explore ideas without the pressure of an audience. Almost by definition, it also provides the time for ideas to mature through the meandering process of tending to ideas.
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