Reflections on a Digital Garden: Systems, Flaws, and the Future

Happy Christmas All

Dec 21, 2025

I stumbled on an article last week about how to summarise your notes using AI. You can find it here.

After working through my digital garden and asking the suggested questions, I found the results were strikingly accurate.

Here is what the analysis stated:

The Tipping Point: You are preoccupied with the moment when immense, powerful human systems—empires, war machines, justice, and social contracts, fail due to a hidden flaw or deliberate corruption. If you have read any of my crime articles, I am sure you can see this is accurate.
The Knowledge Gap: My focus tends to concentrate on historical systems rather than modern ones, such as global capitalism. This is a gap I am eager to rectify next year.
Systemic Cruelty: You have a morbid, detailed fascination with moments where human cruelty is institutionalised, systemic, or forensic. As a true crime writer, I found this also to be very accurate.

I would be interested to know what your notes say about you and what you are interested in studying next year.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support this year and to wish you a Happy Christmas and New Year. See you in 2026.

Sam 😊