Kicking off my 'Digital Garden' experiment.

Back in the mid-2000's, I started a blog, as was fashionable at the time, and had a massive audience of 4 people...my mother, father, brother and an ex-girlfriend that liked to keep tabs on me. It was filled with the mundane "This is what I did today, this is what I plan on doing tomorrow" type posts that were written by a young man, fresh out of college who was far from wise to the ways of the world.

Fast forward 20 years, I've grown into a father, husband, a working professional, and someone with quite a few more nuanced and formed ideas about the world. The internet has shifted away from being a personal playground of blog posts on Tumbler toward, for better or worse, a more curated and refined on-line experience.

The definition of a digital garden isn't something that I made up or have even been plugged into for very long, but when I first discovered the approach to capturing knowledge, thoughts, wisdom, and random junk from your days, it resonated with me. I used Evernote as a brain dump for the better part of the last decade and have recently moved over into the wonderful world of Obsidian, which if you haven't checked it out or given it a try, it's a fantastic way to spend a rabbit-hole of a Saturday.

So with that, I present, the Digital Garden of Buildscharacter.

Greenhouses in the Garden