<h1 id="chesterton-fence">Chesterton Fence<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#chesterton-fence"></a></h1>
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<p>(public policy) The principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence">Wikipedia</a></p>
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<h3 id="thoughts">Thoughts<a aria-hidden="true" class="anchor-heading icon-link" href="#thoughts"></a></h3>
<p>Tradeoff is that sometimes, there's too many things wrong with the current thing and the only way to make progress is to tear everything down and start from a clean slate.</p>
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<li><a class="color-tag" style="--tag-color: #71aa34;" href="/notes/86gnc1hkxvv0rvc1sgkuilt">area.decision-making</a></li>
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<strong>Backlinks</strong>
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<li><a href="/notes/LMpLWbLBIfRzkSjJlF7U1">Mental Models (kevin-public)</a></li>
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Chesterton Fence

kevin-public


## 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. 

If you are feeling more adventurous, you can read about how this blog is structured below and go down your own trail!

![[dendron://kevin-public/home.schema#^begin]]

## Contact

You can find and contact me in the following places (sorted by frequency of use):

- Email: kevin(at)dendron.so
- Twitter: [`@kevins8`](https://twitter.com/kevins8)
- Github: [`@kevins8`](https://github.com/kevinslin)
- LinkedIn: [`@kevinslin-thence`](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinslin-thence)

## Working in the Open

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Code for this blog is available on [github](https://github.com/kevinslin/kevin-garden).

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