Using Web Mentions to Have a Conversation With the Whole Web

Maggie Appleton is a product designer at Ought, an AI research lab that’s working on ways to scale open-ended thinking with machine learning. She’s also an advocate of sharing personal knowledge online. She publishes one of the best digital gardens I’ve seen, located at maggieappleton.com. In this conversation, we discuss the what, why, and how of digital gardening.

Show notes

• Maggie Appleton
• Maggie Appleton on Twitter
• Ought
• [Metaphors We Live](https://amzn.to/43q0eEj) By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
• The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by Maggie Appleton
• Goffman’s Theory of Performance of the Self
• Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Adam D. Barnhart
• Clifford Geertz - Britannica
• Substack
• Work with the garage door up by Andy Matuschak
• Niklas Luhmann - Wikipedia
• ChatGPT
• Nicole van der Hoeven on Obsidian – The Informed Life
• Obsidian
• Hacker News

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