The Swyx Mixtape

[Weekend Drop] Digital Gardening w/ Maggie Appleton

Maggie and swyx hosted a Clubhouse chat this weekend on Digital Gardens. Here are show notes for ongoing conversations so you can dig in further!

  • Maggie’s garden: https://maggieappleton.com/ 
  • Swyx’s garden: https://www.swyx.io/ideas, http://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy (and other repos)

Comments and extra questions welcome!


## Recording

YouTube Recording Here and Commentable Transcript is Here!


This podcast audio was automatically edited for pauses and filler words via Descript. It gets a little choppy about 45mins in, but otherwise seems ok?

## Things we talked about

  • Nikita’s Everything I Know garden: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/
  • Maggie's list of Digital Gardeners: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
  • Penn Course on the Literature of Success: https://apps.wharton.upenn.edu/syllabi/?course=LGST227 
  • Devon Zuegel on Epistemic Statuses: https://devonzuegel.com/post/epistemic-statuses-are-lazy-and-that-is-a-good-thing 
  • Digital Garden Terms of Service: https://www.swyx.io/digital-garden-tos 
  • Neil Postman: 
    • The Medium is the Metaphor: https://people.wou.edu/~visuanod/visuano_amusing_ourselves_to_death.pdf 
    • Amusing Ourselves to Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death 
  • Building A Second Brain: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ 
  • Andy Matuschak: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes 
    • Gatsby Theme Andy: https://github.com/aravindballa/gatsby-theme-andy 
  • Transclusion: https://maggieappleton.com/transcopyright-dreams
  • Nonlinear tools for thought:
    • Roam of course :)
    • Muse App https://museapp.com/
    • Kosmik App https://lithium.paris/ 
  • Google Docs as Collaborative Digital Gardens
    • Chris Paik’s Frameworks Google Doc (tweet, doc) has ongoing comments that help shape the garden
    • Swyx on Webmentions: https://www.swyx.io/twitter-metacommentary/ 
  • Swyx Three Strikes Rule: https://www.swyx.io/three-strikes/ 
  • Tiago Forte on Progressive Summarization: https://fortelabs.co/blog/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes/
  • Drawing tools: https://excalidraw.com/, https://miro.com/, https://figma.com/ 
  • How To Create Luck: https://swyx.io/create_luck 
  • Lisa Hardy’s Hyperfine Village concept