robin-rendle-digital-gardening.md (1183B)
1 +++ 2 title = "Chronological Sort Considered Positive" 3 date = 2025-01-12T16:08:56-08:00 4 [extra] 5 type = "link" 6 link = "https://robinrendle.com/notes/digital-gardening/" 7 +++ 8 9 Robin Rendle, himself responding to another post on "digital gardening": 10 11 > How many bangers on this here website are lost to the feed of new 12 > stuff and are only hard to find because of the chronological list I’ve 13 > slapped together? There’s so much stuff that I’d like to revise or 14 > tweak or scratch out—but keep a record of that change of mind for the 15 > future. Wouldn’t that be so neat? Going back over twenty years of work 16 > and watching your thought process adapt over time? 17 18 That record of evolution—of a minding shifting and evolving—is in fact 19 chronological sort's *raison d'être*. If you change your mind about 20 something you've written, if you've grown in your thinking, or even if 21 your position has concentrated into a stronger version of what you 22 already believed: write another post. I would propose that contrasting 23 those posts over time will probably provide a better understanding of 24 one's "process adapt[ing]" than just converting your personal website to 25 a wiki. 26 27 <!-- more -->