AI is most useful for automating stuff well understood—repetitive, time-consuming tasks that don't require creativity. Take an agentic terminal user interface like Claude code, use Obsidian as your frontend, and your file system as the database, and automate quickly. craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...

I see agents as being extensions of ourselves (if we make them with enough care), and it therefore makes sense to have an easier way for agents to access our thoughts. A digital garden is a great way to accomplish this without rotting their context. craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...

I got fed up with language learning apps for Brazilian Portuguese, so I spent one hour prototyping my own using a couple of bits and pieces I found lying around. It's working well so far. craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...

It's easier than ever to produce bad work while simultaneously thinking it's great. Without doing the hard work, you don't get better, you never improve, and you stay stuck at whatever randomly-generated ceiling AI gives you. craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...

I try to hold in my mind that the current models and algorithms are less Artificial Intelligence and more Articulate Idiots. craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...

In digital gardens, posts are connected to other posts through related themes, topics, and shared context. Their relationship is topographical instead of chronological. craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...

My main goal with digital gardening is to share more of my portfolio of work, get feedback, and think more deeply. Putting your thoughts out into the ether means you [should] refine them into something coherent. craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...

Digital gardens get you to write in a way that is more natural to how the human brain thinks, in a neurotically networked hypergraph. 🌱 craighill.dev/thoughts/blo...