I’m Jesse and this is my digital garden. 🪴
I hope you enjoy your visit! 🤙
My garden isn’t very organized yet, but I’m okay with this.
With time, the pots and compost bins will find their homes, and I’ll take time to landscape. I encourage you to embrace this for what it is: a collection of writings by someone that isn’t looking to optimize their search engine ranking or garner likes and comments.
Some quick direction, so we don’t get caught in the weeds! 🗺️
My site is navigable via sidebar or, my favorite feature, graphs at the bottom of each page. There is no wrong way to explore. But for focused readings, I hope the info below is useful:
Curriculum Vitæ & Résumé: Home to my Curriculum Vitæ and index of resumes for roles I’m interested in.
This is a more honest approach than the standardized CV as a Resume normalized by social media platforms like LinkedIn. Why do we curate such a performative document only to shyly update it to reflect the roles we are interested in? I posit that this is a disservice to ourselves and employers, and that by showing our flexibility across different resumes in conjunction with a bare-bones CV, we are no longer limited by the character count in a post.
Thoughts: They’re connected via the mind map graph found at the bottom of each page, or linearly as possible within the thoughts index. Thoughts are free-form exercises, project updates, career-relevant takes on my fields of interest, and guides for those that want them.
Some are about the culture of epistimilogical recursion in project management or daily life, and others might be a recipe for some tasty herring in mango-pepper sauce.
Archive: Previously active pages. Easily peruse via the archive index.
Where pages are sent to retire and to commemorate the code of prior days. Some things are too personally sentimental to fully remove.
The Site Map: For the spreadsheet-loving readers, I get it. It’s all here at the site index.
Whether I’ve shared my site with you personally for professional or leisurely interests, or if you somehow found yourself here through chance, I hope that it conveys a few small things:
I’m putting myself out there as a form of self-expression, reflection, and development.
I’m embracing non-performative content.
I value places where I can not only learn, but help others learn in kind. Whether that be a role I applied for or a community I’ve found myself in.
I’m invested in preserving my sense-of-self and fostering resilience from mono-cultures: algorithmic, self-referred, or seclusionary.
The world isn’t slowing down for anyone without the effort of everyone. Introducing small acts of friction into your day can be meaningful and an act of punk-like mindfulness. I hope Thich Nhat Hanh would be proud to see someone finding peace in every step, even if those steps are choosing to use their own website over macro-web platforms.
It’s easy to forget that we didn’t always keep the world in our pocket. I miss when it was purposeful to connect to communities and more common to spend time in reflection.