Hi, I'm Luke!
Welcome to my digital garden, hypertext notebook, or nonlinear manifesto.
This site uses bi-directional links to connect and communicate ideas in a public notebook. I borrowed the idea, because I wanted to place to think and write in public. It's created with Roam.Garden and connected to a collection of my notes in Roam Research.
All of the notes here will reflect my thinking at various stages of development and with various levels of confidence.
The metaphor of a garden is fitting. The notes here are sometimes wild and untamed. My goal is to tend them. Hopefully the harvest will come later.
Navigating a site like this will be unusual for most people who are used to the linear, chronological structure of most blogs and websites. So let me say a couple things about that.
Internal links will open in side-by-side panels. That's obvious enough. The effect here is like exploring a new area without a map. All the hyperlink paths are free to travel on. Just pick one that looks interesting and start exploring.
Additionally, there are two other navigational aids. There is a search feature at the top, and there is a graph visualization option if you want to see all the notes and their connections.
These notes are the raw materials with which I am assembling a working theory of knowledge. A layman's guide to knowledge work. A street-level epistemology.
These notes are built on a few presuppositions:
If you're looking for a place to start, these are the main entry points into the notes:
Elements: the fundamental units of thought and discourse
Patterns: the flexible, reusable solutions to common problems in reading, thinking, and writing
Structures: the archetype works from which the elements and patterns were discovered
Most of my notes will be one of these three types, which naturally build on each other. Elements combine to form patterns, structures contain both elements and patterns. Like the periodic table, elements are the fundamental building blocks of meaning. Like music theory, patterns and structures harmonize elements into cohesive works.
If you prefer, you can find complete and alphabetical lists of elements, patterns, and structures here:
You can also check out my main website and my blog.