🪴 Hello, there! 🤙 [The Original Landing Page]

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This is the original landing page pushed to my site on April 27th, 2026.

I’m Jesse and this is my digital garden. 🪴

I hope you enjoy your visit! 🤙

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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.

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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.

I’m still learning a lot about maintaining a garden, and I’m sure a lot will change. But that’s what gardens do - they bloom, overgrow, shrink back, get pruned, and bear fruit.

Please explore, take some seeds, and plant your own,

$$-Jesse-Dickens-$$