I'd never really thought much about using this site as a blog, much less the concept of digital gardens until I read this post.
One of the challenges of having a bevy of both professional and personal interests, is that it's hard to navigate how to develop your online presence. When I was younger, it was less important. As personal websites became something people would look up, I felt the need to keep a presence "presentable" for anyone who might show up.
These days, I don't need a website to get me a job. So I can kinda do whatever I want and it'd be fun to recede to the blogging days of yore to some degree, partially because in the absence of Twitter, I realized how much I'd prefer to put stuff down somewhere in a place I own.
Weirdly, I just type better inside of a CMS box. I can't make sense of that, but it's why for a long time I found Tumblr such a great place for my writing and at the peak Tumblr time, I was prolific. Same with older sites. I could do the same for my own site, but there's something nice about having a scratchpad where people can react, especially as it relates to professional topics, because there's almost no way I'd be where I am without the amplifier that Twitter ended up being for me at a key time in my career.
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