"a digital garden is something inbetween a personal blog and a wiki. it's a collection of evolving notes, essays, and ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. they're inherently exploratory – posts are linked through contextual associations (bi-directional links). they aren't refined or complete - posts can be published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. they're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal "blogs" we're used to encountering on the web." - maggie appleton on digital gardening tools and resources.

the digital garden metaphor can go a really long way. understanding your knowledge as a web of relationships can make us question, manage and design our information ecologies in more conscious ways. soon you'll be able to read more about my perspectives on knowledge management/sharing on about - my approach to knowledge development post.

for now, if you want to know more, you can check out maggie's amazing content on a brief history & ethos of the digital garden, daniel schmachtenberger's the war on sensemaking and my thoughts on the fields of tools for thought and personal knowledge management as a whole.

the goal of my research was to map, understand and curate multiple cohesive approaches and possibilities to answer the question:

how can we address the profound spiritual/psychological, ecological, economic, sociopolitical, technological and educational challenges we're going through and create the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible?

i.e. how can we address the interconnected inner and outer dimensions of the metacrisis?

by sharing my findings, i aim to establish some foundational knowledge commons to support us in navigating this complexity and enabling new, more resilient and regenerative systems, lifestyles and ways of being.

1) what is the situation we find ourselves in, across many perspectives and dimensions, and what's needed to address that?

first you'll find a curation of resources presenting both wide and deep overviews of the human predicament and the underlying dynamics at play.

2) what existing response approaches exist? what's their theory of change? what are their level of development and context of applicability?

finally, as an outcome of this research, we'll dive deep into a couple inquiries:

a) how can art, technology and games support consciousness development and ecosystems regeneration?

a.k.a. how can we develop systems and structures to support life thriving on earth?

this comprises most of the "research" part of this work. most pages will be tagged with #alchemy or #design tags.

b) how can life be more like a sacred game?

a sacred game is not any kind of game. it's one that's deeply fun, collaborative, challenging, meaningful and fulfilling.
a game that honors the beauty and mystery of life, that challenges and supports us to flourish - to discover ourselves, unfold our potentials and share our gifts with others.

this comprises most of the "development" part of this work. most pages will be tagged with #lab, #regen or #player tags.

some people have a resistance with the game frame because of its often seen competitive, game-theoretical win-lose dynamics. i share that hesitation, in the normal sense of the term. that's why the concept of game i'm using here is closer to the infinite game and omni-win dynamics observed by thinkers such as buckminster fuller in the world game and communities such as fourgames, metagame.wtf and startover.xyz.

why not just "play" then?

because games introduce the distinction of serious play. a game can be a container in which you feel like you truly "gave it your best" - it may be an epic journey in which you thrive and learn/gather feedback from that - or you can also fail miserably and learn a bunch of other lessons from that. it provides a context for a profound, immediate, experiential form of learning, since you have a very tight application of the OODA loop.

this is therefore an inquiry into how we can:

transform life into a real-world massive multiplayer online-and-offline collaborative self-transformation & regenerative civilization-building game.

(see more at: l1f3 game)

you can read a lot more about the motivations, background and philosophical basis of this research on my viable pathways book-zine (coming soon).