Learning in public
The operating philosophy of this whole garden: publish the process, not just the conclusions.
Meta / Garden
Notes about learning, this site itself, and how the garden is tended.
Metacognition, Eileen Gu, and the Fear of Going Public
The thing elite performers and good thinkers share is not raw talent; it is metacognition, the skill of watching your own mind. Here is what it is, why putting yourself out there feels so irreversible, and why the spotlight effect means it matters less than you think.
AI Slop and the Quiet Cost of Foraging
Maggie Appleton calls it jetspraying the web with AI slop. Here is why that cheap flood is so exhausting, told through Information Foraging Theory, and why your tiredness is a rational response, not a personal failing.
Not a Toaster: The Secret Superpower Called 'Why?'
A toaster never asks whether it should toast. Humans do, and that pause has a name. A tour of philosophy: first principles, the Socratic method, epistemology, and why the annoying 'Why?' game is a real superpower.
Tasting life twice
I've been a bad writer since primary school, all mimicry and dread. Then a line from Anaïs Nin reframed the whole thing, and I decided to write every day, in public, badly at first.
Threat-modeling this garden
Eating my own dog food: a security person's website should survive its own methodology.
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