Richard Ng

EdTech, Climate, Future of Work, DE+I

🧑‍🌾 You're in my digital garden - a tangled web of incomplete and rough thoughts.

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  • Extract out personal garden principles into separate notes 1/2/21

Don't overthink what you're writing

My normal writing process involves lots of thought and backspacing ("oh that actually could be worded better").

When I'm writing my digital garden, I'm actively trying to avoid backspacing - seeing it as a random dump of ideas in my head, almost like stream of consciousness.

This makes it less reader friendly (hence the need for a

, probably) but it's actually quite a nice writing experience.

So, is it selfish? Undoubtedly - but

, anyway, so that seems totally appropriate in this instance.


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