What

TIL^[1] ("Today, I learned") is the name for my public "Digital Garden" and blog. It is for exploring and sharing content in passion areas.

The 🗺Map of Contents organizes the content, including the list of blog posts, topics, articles, and blog-chains.

Common topics include:

• 🛠 Productivity (GTD and PKM)
• 👨‍💻 Coding
• 💻 Tech, SAAS, B2B
• 😇 Advising
• 🔥 FIRE
• 👨‍✈️ Aviation
• 👨‍🎓 Business Education
• 🏔 Mountaineering
• 🎮 video games & 🛩flight simulation
• 🏍 Motorcycling
• 🏕 Camping
• 🏙 The PNW (Seattle, Portland), NorCal (San Francisco), and Santa Barbara

Why

TIL is a place to:

• Extravert my ideas, thoughts, and have a place from which to store them
• Share in lieu of any particular social media network: I can write and link to a blog post that persists beyond an algorithm, and it is available via RSS.
• Synthesize learnings into a series of posts called a blog-chain that help cunk content into sizes that are both easier to read and write.
• Exercise and develop writing skills.
• Learn In Public

And per 23 Reasons to Write online:

Write to dispel the curse of knowledge, to find your people, and to become.

How

Infrastructure Stack

This entire website is built using Obsidian, with the Digital Garden Plug In.

This website is maintained in a second vault, separate from my main PKM content. The content is stored in a GitHub repo, and when I published a page, it is built with 11ty and served by Vercel. My domain registrar was Google Domains, before they sold off that business to Squarespace.

Using Obsidian as my "CMS" allows me to write and publish content on mobile or laptop, in a very friendly and easy to use interface, without a whole separate application or web service. As of 2025-07-31, the only required monetary cost is for my domain registration. I do occasionally send monetary support for Obsidian and The Digital Garden plug-in project. I expect that someday, either GitHub or Vercel will start asking for money.

💡 More of my tools, services, and media preferences can be found on Uses

Content production

As of 2025-07-31, I primarily treat TIL as a blog and not as a Digital Garden. Although I write primarily in the topic areas above, I still haven't written substantial content in all of them. I don't maintain any particular writing style, length of post, or regular cadence.

Feedback

As of right now, I do not have a feedback mechanism other than Google Analytics, so the best way to discuss content with me is via