Maggie Appleton on Digital Gardening

<p><b>Maggie Appleton</b> is a product designer at <a href='https://ought.org/'>Ought</a>, an AI research lab that’s working on ways to scale open-ended thinking with machine learning. She’s also an advocate of sharing personal knowledge online. She publishes one of the best digital gardens I’ve seen, located at <a href='https://maggieappleton.com/'>maggieappleton.com</a>. In this conversation, we discuss the what, why, and how of digital gardening.</p><p><b>Show notes</b></p><ul><li><a href='https://maggieappleton.com/'>Maggie Appleton</a></li><li><a href='https://twitter.com/Mappletons'>Maggie Appleton on Twitter</a></li><li><a href='https://ought.org/'>Ought</a></li><li>[<em>Metaphors We Live](https://amzn.to/43q0eEj)</em> By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson</li><li><a href='https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest'><em>The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI</em></a> by Maggie Appleton</li><li>Goffman’s Theory of Performance of the Self</li><li><a href='https://web.pdx.edu/~tothm/theory/Presentation%20of%20Self.htm'><em>Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life</em></a> by Adam D. Barnhart</li><li><a href='https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clifford-Geertz'>Clifford Geertz - Britannica</a></li><li><a href='https://substack.com/'>Substack</a></li><li><a href='https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up'>Work with the garage door up</a> by Andy Matuschak</li><li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Luhmann'>Niklas Luhmann - Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href='https://chat.openai.com/'>ChatGPT</a></li><li><a href='https://theinformed.life/2023/03/26/episode-110-nicole-van-der-hoeven/'>Nicole van der Hoeven on Obsidian – The Informed Life</a></li><li><a href='http://theinformed.local/2023/07/16/episode-118-maggie-appleton/[Obsidian%20-%20Sharpen%20your%20thinking](https://obsidian.md/)'>Obsidian</a></li><li><a href='http://theinformed.local/2023/07/16/episode-118-maggie-appleton/[Hacker%20News](https://news.ycombinator.com/)'>Hacker News</a></li></ul><p><em>Show notes