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Libraries are gardens, not warehouses

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  • knowledge
  • attention
Connections & tensions

TL;DR

An archive grows more useful through care, not accumulation. Revisiting and connecting a small set of readings can do more for understanding than collecting a much larger set.

Tags work as paths back into a question rather than a perfect classification system; an imperfect collection you visit teaches more than a perfect one you maintain.

The maintenance itself is thinking: letting older readings change meaning as your interests change is the work the garden metaphor names.

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