I was inspired by my friend Jannik to create a digital garden of my own. Iām terrible at keeping up with this sort of thing, but Iāll do my best!
I think the part of this that is both the most enticing and terrifying is āLearning in Publicā. I often feel pressure to only present the best, most put-together version of myself. This is amplified in the workplace. I hate going into a meeting unprepared.
So, I often find myself obsessively researching topics until I feel comfortable with the general ideas before I even start asking questions to someone more knowledgeable. I love the process of learning new, difficult concepts, but I think itās about time for me to lose the desperation that I sometimes have when going about the process.
Starting this digital garden and taking notes as Iām learning is my attempt at breaking this habit. If for some reason youāre reading this, please donāt take anything I write about here as accurate. I donāt know, maybe one day Iāll add a label to these to signify that I have some clue what Iām talking about.
But for the most part this will be putting on display my lack of knowledge. Hopefully this will get me a bit more comfortable with not knowing things, and people knowing the extent of my not-knowing. Maybe it will convince someone else to do the same. More likely, no one will read this at all, and thatās okay too.