Sensemaking

Stylized layout for a garden with many interconnected centers, demonstrating how connections form a coherent whole
Tools for Thought

Links create topology or sense of space in posts

Mike Caulfield makes a distinction between online posts that are “gardens” and posts that are “streams.” Streams are posts that you read, and then they move on, disappearing into history. They are utterances, meaning that they can only be correctly understood by what was said before. You can follow the chain of utterance back, thanks…

Notes

The digital garden as an experience generator

Mike Caulfield talks about his collection of notes in his wiki and how they work together as a rich network of ideas. Part of his method is to very carefully describe the relationship between two ideas when he builds his links. These descriptions become ideas in their own right. Caulfield’s links are by nature structure…