commit 58344cf451ba6fefcfaa9555d35c62554ee39632 parent 07dd9614d5d6c8965018323102dff12f2d51d638 Author: FIGBERT <figbert@figbert.com> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:10:20 -0800 Add commentary on Robin Rendle's digital gardening Diffstat:
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diff --git a/content/posts/robin-rendle-digital-gardening.md b/content/posts/robin-rendle-digital-gardening.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ ++++ +title = "Chronological Sort Considered Positive" +date = 2025-01-12T16:08:56-08:00 +[extra] +type = "link" +link = "https://robinrendle.com/notes/digital-gardening/" ++++ + +Robin Rendle, himself responding to another post on "digital gardening": + +> How many bangers on this here website are lost to the feed of new +> stuff and are only hard to find because of the chronological list I’ve +> slapped together? There’s so much stuff that I’d like to revise or +> tweak or scratch out—but keep a record of that change of mind for the +> future. Wouldn’t that be so neat? Going back over twenty years of work +> and watching your thought process adapt over time? + +That record of evolution—of a minding shifting and evolving—is in fact +chronological sort's *raison d'être*. If you change your mind about +something you've written, if you've grown in your thinking, or even if +your position has concentrated into a stronger version of what you +already believed: write another post. I would propose that contrasting +those posts over time will probably provide a better understanding of +one's "process adapt[ing]" than just converting your personal website to +a wiki. + +<!-- more -->