<h1 id="this-is-water">This Is Water<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#this-is-water"></a></h1>
<h2 id="summary">Summary<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#summary"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Water</a></li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p>There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”</p>
</blockquote>
<h2 id="notes">Notes<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#notes"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>first appeared as a commencement speech given by <a title="Private" href="https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/hfyvYGJZQiUwQaaxQO27q.html" target="_blank" class="private">people.figure.david-foster-wallace (Private)</a></li>
<li>later adapted into a longer essay</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="thoughts">Thoughts<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#thoughts"></a></h2>
<p>What is around us becomes invisible to us. </p>
<h2 id="related-to">Related to<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#related-to"></a></h2>
<ul>
<li>the power of defaults</li>
<li>your are the sum of your eight closest friends</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2 id="tags">Tags<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#tags"></a></h2>
<ol>
<li><a class="color-tag" style="--tag-color: #6e1005;" href="/notes/kdcqozwbnt4i4ggs1yf0ndl">area.psych</a></li>
</ol>
<hr>
<strong>Backlinks</strong>
<ul>
<li><a href="/notes/ihpcjazhvzwgbpz8xzrml0s">They're Made out of Meat (kevin-public)</a></li>
</ul>

This Is Water

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

I'm **Kevin**, founder of [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) ([YCW21](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29176158)) - an open-source, local-first, knowledge base for developers. Our goal is to help devs access and structure all the information they have ever come across using plain text, markdown, and version control. 


As a point of reference, I made Dendron because I wanted a better way of managing my own corpus of **30K+ notes**. Dendron is the result of a decade of experimenting with different tools and systems. 

The end result is [[A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking|dendron://kevin-blog/blog.pkm.2020-08-24-a-hierarchy-first-approach-to-note-taking]], a system that helped me instantly access any information I've noted before. 

You are reading my personal site which is managed and published using Dendron. You can [clone this site locally](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-public-vault) or [make your own](https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/4ushYTDoX0TYQ1FDtGQSg). 


## Navigating the Garden

The advantage of a garden is that it is non-linear and can offer much more context than a linear blog. This is also its greatest downside as it can be hard to know where to begin. If you want to ease into this experience and want a linear feed of blog posts, I would recommend starting off with the [[Blog|dendron://kevin-blog/blog]] hierarchy. 

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