This Is Water

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Quit Your Job

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Vanilla JS TodoMVC App in 2022

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Princeton University Admission

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The Universe of Discourse : Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea

Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks

Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq

DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts

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Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas 

Thoughts on The Witness

The art of the reading nook

How do you avoid video game addiction

Assume Positive Intent

A project with a single 11,000-line code file

Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth with Intercom CEO, Karen Peacock

Picking the Perfect Pricing Model that Fits Your App

20 Learnings from Product Led Growth

Ten Things to Avoid Being Blindsided By In Your Pursuit Of Customer Success

Thoughts on Markdown

Fall of Roam

2022

## Welcome to my [Digital Garden](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) 🌱

I'm **Kevin**. I'm a software engineer that's been obsessed with PKM for the last decade - mostly for personal reasons as I needed a tool that could help me make use of my own corpus of **+30K notes**. 

After a decade of experimenting, I found that existing workflows and tools  (sometimes) made it easy to create notes but past the 1K note threshold, made it [[impossible to find again|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-03-30-its_not_you_its_your_knowledge_base]]

This led me to create my own workflow - [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]]. This workflow, combined with custom tooling I created to facilitate it, **completely solved information overload** for myself, allowing me to easily create, organize and reference my own knowledge.

In 2019, I left my job at Amazon to focus on distilling everything I had learned about PKM to build [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) - a [tool for thought](https://numinous.productions/ttft/) that helps **humans** manage **knowledge at scale**.

![[home._ref.dendron-missions]]

## Navigating the Garden

![[home.schema]]

## About the Garden

Dendron is not just for storing knowledge but also for sharing it. This is why [publishing](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg.html) is a first class feature in Dendron (this site that you're reading is published using Dendron). 

Dendron makes it easy to publish any subset of your notes using a custom open source nextjs template that compiles everything down to static HTML which you can host anywhere. 

## Contact

You can find and contact me in the following places (sorted by frequency of use):

- Email: kevin(at)dendron.so
- Twitter: [`@kevins8`](https://twitter.com/kevins8)
- Github: [`@kevins8`](https://github.com/kevinslin)
- LinkedIn: [`@kevinslin-thence`](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinslin-thence)

## Working in the Open

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Code for this blog is available on [github](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-garden).

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