Hello, and welcome to my digital garden!
This is where I grapple with ideas that fascinate me to refine, crystallize, and eventually turn them into more polished artifacts. You’ll find concepts in various stages of completion, from quick thoughts captured during my readings to full-blown theories about the different fields of work I’m engaged in.
You should know that this is, first and foremost, a private space for my own thinking, which I’m building in public in the hope that:
Because of this, you may very well find notes that are incomplete, nonsensical, or contradictory—when you do, know that the messiness you’re seeing is a feature, not a bug, and a necessary step toward a more polished output.
While my professional background is primarily in software engineering, I’ve always been fascinated by a number of different fields, such as writing, leadership, marketing, commerce, and, of course, the art of knowledge management itself. As I started dabbling in more and more disciplines, I quickly realized that:
My first attempt at using writing as a learning tool was to publish my own blog which, after a number of iterations, eventually landed on Medium.
Unfortunately, I quickly realized that blogs are suboptimal for learning: they discourage non-linear thinking in favor of building a highly linear, highly polished body of work. I kept blogging with varying levels of commitment for several years while keeping my eyes peeled for a better alternative.
I don’t quite remember how I first stumbled upon the concept of a digital garden, but it resonated with me immediately: it felt like I had finally found a way to build a home for the million thoughts, theories, and questions that floated in my mind, and work on them at my own pace without losing any context.
A few years after starting my own garden, I can confidently say it’s one of the most satisfying and impactful projects I’ve had the pleasure to work on throughout my life.
If you get excited about any of the stuff you find here and would like to talk about it, feel free to drop me a line at hello@alessandro.codes. Have fun!