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Boyd Varty is a... South African Wildlife Tracker Wayfinder Coach Instructor, Author, Speaker Campfire Storyteller Encourager tell "Your Story" so you can connect more deeply and live more authentically within the world. One of my inspirations for the GoMicro publishing project.

My real garden where I get inspired daily. In early Spring, 2025, while researching how to publish Obsidian notes to the web, I came across a video about Digital Gardens, a metaphor for sharing your creations early in the creation process . My Digital Garden is a core part of my GoMicro publishing project. This Practice In Public concept made a ton of sense to me. I have thousands of notes because I write every day and collect lots of ideas. But I share very little of that. The "roots" of this garden is my Obsidian based PKM , a knowledge base for ideas to connect and grow. With a Digital Garden You Plant... fragments or "seeds " of your notes that might grow into "sprouts " and one day may become ""evergreen ", meaning they are long lasting, and somewhat "finished". I love metaphors, especially ones using the natural world, so the Digital Garden was perfect. Does a Digital Garden "Work"? Yes! I'm amazed at how well it's working. My intention was to start sharing in ways I had not done before: more loosely, freely, quickly, with less listening to my inner critic . By day 2 of the project, I posted 15 notes, which is more than I usually post to my website in a year! By day 4, I'm up to 23! Updates To This Site Here's a list of the latest updates, made possible by the Dataview plugin , an easy to use database tool for Obsidian . Note Name Last Updated Links Obsidian Is 10:10 PM - April 21, 2025 0 Digital Garden 5:55 PM - April 21, 2025 26 write every day 5:48 PM - April 21, 2025 2 Asheville 5:27 PM - April 21, 2025 4 GoMicro 5:16 PM - April 21, 2025 8 Zapier 5:13 PM - April 21, 2025 4 A Coach Is 5:05 PM - April 21, 2025 1 Writing Is 5:02 PM - April 21, 2025 1 Worldview 7:25 PM - April 19, 2025 5 Wayfinder Coach 7:25 PM - April 19, 2025 9 Updates to This Site 7:22 PM - April 19, 2025 2 Ram Dass 7:21 PM - April 19, 2025 5 PKM 7:17 PM - April 19, 2025 13 Obsidian 7:16 PM - April 19, 2025 26 markdown 7:16 PM - April 19, 2025 8 Also see this on the Updates to This Site page.

A Coach Is... Your co-creator of a safe space for Personal Growth. And Guide though your most challenging assumptions, To get you on the path to where you want to go. So you learn to choose to embrace your limiting beliefs, Instead of wanting to move and standing still. GoMicro

Writing every day for just 10 mins will transform your life. Your writing never has to be "good". It just needs to be an act of putting ANY words down. This is one of the Core Practices and "Practical Ways to Live More Inspired Lives" that I advocate as a coach. GoMicro

Here's what I'm up to on this Digital Garden site: Note Name Last Updated Links Obsidian Is 10:10 PM - April 21, 2025 0 Digital Garden 5:55 PM - April 21, 2025 26 write every day 5:48 PM - April 21, 2025 2 Asheville 5:27 PM - April 21, 2025 4 GoMicro 5:16 PM - April 21, 2025 8 Zapier 5:13 PM - April 21, 2025 4 A Coach Is 5:05 PM - April 21, 2025 1 Writing Is 5:02 PM - April 21, 2025 1 Worldview 7:25 PM - April 19, 2025 5 Wayfinder Coach 7:25 PM - April 19, 2025 9 Updates to This Site 7:22 PM - April 19, 2025 2 Ram Dass 7:21 PM - April 19, 2025 5 PKM 7:17 PM - April 19, 2025 13 Obsidian 7:16 PM - April 19, 2025 26 markdown 7:16 PM - April 19, 2025 8 Limiting Belief 7:15 PM - April 19, 2025 12 Keyword shortcuts + text replacements are da-bomb. 7:15 PM - April 19, 2025 0 inner critic 7:12 PM - April 19, 2025 3 Evernote 7:12 PM - April 19, 2025 1 Digital Sharecropper 7:12 PM - April 19, 2025 5 David Bourne 7:11 PM - April 19, 2025 3 David and the Shark Essay 7:11 PM - April 19, 2025 4 creation process 7:11 PM - April 19, 2025 1 Enshitification 7:11 PM - April 19, 2025 2 Cory Doctorow 7:10 PM - April 19, 2025 2 Digital Garden - RSS Problem 7:06 PM - April 19, 2025 2 Microblogging From Obsidian 7:02 PM - April 19, 2025 5 PhotosTest 6:18 PM - April 19, 2025 0 Microblogging 4:33 PM - April 19, 2025 0 Practice In Public 4:18 PM - April 19, 2025 13 Core Practices 2:33 PM - April 19, 2025 2 Camino de Santiago 2:33 PM - April 19, 2025 1 Bear.app 2:22 PM - April 19, 2025 8 30 Days of Substack 2:21 PM - April 19, 2025 3 photos 9:21 AM - March 30, 2025 1 The Re-Create Space 5:29 PM - March 29, 2025 0 Zettelkasten 8:39 PM - March 28, 2025 7 DavidBourne.net Digital Garden Home 8:20 PM - March 28, 2025 2 Who Are You? 3:22 PM - March 28, 2025 5

Go Micro to get moving. In the spring of '25 I started posting “Micro Posts” to my socials as a way to share more ideas. Tiny changes are the foundation for everything. How it works: The existence of the GoMicro Obsidian link tells Zapier to push that post out. Not there? No Share. BTW, the social posts sometimes show two brackets like this...[[word]] which means there is a link on my site from that term. At the moment, I can't fix it. I can only explain it!

Zapier is an automation tool that connects software together. For example, I "zap" my Digital Garden posts to my Social Media feeds as part of my Microblogging From Obsidian Project. Zapier's "if this then that" model gives you tons of control. GoMicro

Obsidian Is... My digital hive mind. Where I spend most of my time. Creating, not just consuming. Reviewing, not just viewing. Connecting, injecting, retrospecting. Obsidian is my rock. For inspection and now projection. GoMicro

I live in Asheville, NC, USA. I wasn't born here, but my kids were, so that makes me a local. Right? I've been here full-time since 1999, but also came as a kid to WNC every summer in the Flat Rock, NC area. Asheville's awesome. GoMicro

Obsidian Is... My digital hive mind. Where I spend most of my time. Creating, not just consuming. Reviewing, not just viewing. Connecting, injecting, retrospecting. Obsidian is my rock. For inspection and now projection. GoMicro

Writing every day is a practice that keeps you growing. Even 10 or 15 minutes will transform your life. Your writing never has to be "good". It just needs to be an act of putting ANY words down. Writing is one of the Core Practices and "Practical Ways to Live More Inspired Lives" that I advocate as a coach.

My best #iphonephotography #screenshot #background of the #day (at Asheville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpRS1tUON0P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#iphonephotography #screenshot #background #day

We saw one of the wonders of the world today. Stonehenge and the whole ceremonial complex is mind blowing. Pretty cool for a pile of rocks. (at Stonehenge world Heritage site, Great Britain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmrkTNoIUnA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

What’s that odd color in the sky? Looks familiar but, it’s been soooooo long. Oh! BLUE! (at Asheville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmEfxkCLErB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

have a creepy Christmas https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl46StvrwQz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Mucho Corazon (at Asheville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clzf0jHLO6F/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Young Hatchling #automaticdrawing (at Asheville, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clyp4cErnSK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#automaticdrawing

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