Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?

A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

How to build a digital garden without touching code

The lost permissioning and copyright system of the Web

Project Xanadu as a pattern language, rather than a failed software project

Illustrated notes on the concept of 'Evergreen notes' and how to write them

A video tour through how I build the old version of this site

What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move

Notes on pattern languages and Christopher Alexander's legacy on software programming

A walkthrough of how I manage and tend Evergreen notes in Roam

Providing clear metadata on the epistemic validity of content