This is true of everything in the garden. They are related to one another in a relatively timeless way. The bridge doesn’t reply to the trees or the trees to the bridge. The question “Did the bridge come after these trees” in a well-designed garden is meaningless historical trivia. In the Garden, to ask what happened first is trivial at best. Every walk through the garden creates new paths, new meanings, and when we add things to the garden we add them in a way that allows many future, unpredicted relationships Things in the Garden don’t collapse to a single set of relations or canonical sequence, and that’s part of what we mean when we say “the web as topology” or the “web as space”. It’s the integrative web, the iterative web, the web as an arrangement and rearrangement of things to one another. How do we build and maintain our own personal information gardens? Not streams - but environments we can tend and grow over decades: This piece from Mike Caulfield takes a very similar look at the time horizons of information, but with an inward lens. Participating in the stream is a fast feedback loop, with a slightly longer undercurrent of connection building.Īs I was reading this thread by Venkatesh I was struck by the similarity to the ideas and concepts in a piece I also read recently (though it’s from 2015) - the garden and the stream, a technopastoral. Loosely speaking - streams are for fast twitch thinking and acting. Title: How to Actually Manage Attention Without Smashing Your Phone and Retreating to a Log Cabin /kEPZUh7g50- Venkatesh Rao October 4, 2018Įspecially interesting to me are the time horizons in this mental model. So what? This framework gives us some good insights into where and how we should be engaging:ġ/ Lemme do a 1-slide presentation since I'm feeling job sick. And of course living entirely in the stream also doesn’t work for us. A few things surfaced recently that I wanted to connect the dots on.įirst - a thread from Venkatesh on information consumption, with lovely insights about how retreating from technology is not the answer.
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