How this garden is organized
Every page on this site is one of five kinds, and the kind is the folder in the URL. Read this once and the rest of
the garden stops being a mystery. This page covers the shape of the garden and the quirks a reader runs into. The rules
behind the kinds live in AGENTS.md, which is the schema the agent works from. This page is the reader’s version of it.
The kinds of page
- Concept (
/concepts/). One idea, pattern, or claim. This is the atomic unit, so a concept page is about one thing and tries to cover all of it. Short here means scoped, not unfinished. - Entity (
/entities/). A person, company, tool, journal, or place. Entity pages carry who someone is and what this garden has read them in. - Source (
/sources/). One page per thing read: a paper, a video, a gist. A source page is the agent’s summary plus the pointers back to it, not a copy of the original. - Synthesis (
/syntheses/). Comparisons and the running argument. These are the pages that take a position, so they are the slowest to grow. - Note and article (
Notes/,Articles/). My own writing. A note is short and feed-first, and its content is its title. An article carries a title and a description of its own. Neither is written by the agent.
Start with one of each kind: doomer-taxonomy for a concept, cal-newport for an entity, and vaccaro-2024-human-ai-meta-analysis for a source.
Growth stage
The properties block under the title says seedling, growing, or evergreen. Those are the garden words, and they
describe revision, not confidence. A seedling is a first honest pass. Growing means the page has met a second source.
Evergreen means it has been revised enough times that its shape stopped moving. I still revise the evergreen ones.
What is not on this site
Diary entries never leave the vault, so a dated journal is not a post. See docs/adr/0009. Raw captures and clipped
articles stay private too, and the build refuses those folders by name rather than by flag, which means a mistaken
publish: true cannot ship them. Everything else sits at publish: false until I flip it, so a page that exists in
Obsidian may not exist here yet.
Moving around
Backlinks sit at the bottom of every page and they are the best way in. The graph view shows what the garden thinks belongs together. Tags are loose groupings and folders are strict ones, so a tag page may mix a concept with the source page that introduced it. Search covers published text only.
Every page published today
The table below is woven from frontmatter by tools/query.rs at build time, so it is accurate as of the deploy you are
reading.
./tools/query.rs publish=true type!=index --sort type --select type,path,status,updated| type | path | status | updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| concept | concepts/ai-doom-paper-trail.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/ai-psychosis.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/ai-weekend.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/chain-of-thought-faithfulness.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/documentation-debt.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/doomer-taxonomy.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/epistemic-state.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/how-this-garden-is-organized.md | evergreen | 2026-10-05 |
| concept | concepts/malicious-compliance-ai.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/one-prompt-awe.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/skill-atrophy-ai.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/slop-code-bench.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/stochastic-parrot.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/tescreal.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| concept | concepts/value-lock.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/alpha-go.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/angelina-mcmillan-major.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/cal-newport.md | seedling | 2026-10-05 |
| entity | entities/daniel-kahneman.md | seedling | 2026-10-05 |
| entity | entities/emily-bender.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/facc-t.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/google-deepmind.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/horizon-institute.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/mit-technology-review.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/open-philanthropy.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/shmargaret-shmitchell.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/thore-graepel.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| entity | entities/timnit-gebru.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| note | Notes/2026-09-20-when-combinations-of-humans-and-ai-are-useful.md | evergreen | 2026-09-21 |
| source | sources/2026-10-04-youtube-jivko-ai-weekend.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| source | sources/2026-10-04-youtube-newport-ai-harm-taxonomy.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| source | sources/bender-2021-stochastic-parrots.md | growing | 2026-10-04 |
| source | sources/graepel-2026-llms-dont-reason.md | seedling | 2026-10-04 |
| source | sources/vaccaro-2024-human-ai-meta-analysis.md | growing | 2026-09-21 |
Sources
AGENTS.mdsection 2 for the layers, section 3 for the type enum and the garden words, section 9 for what never leaves the vault.docs/adr/0009Journal is private, promotion to Notes publishes.docs/adr/0011Content rungs are microformat-exact: note and article.tools/query.rsfor the woven table above.