# Tom Critchlow 🔗 https://tomcritchlow.com/ An early and influential gardener. His essay [Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens](https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/10/10/of-gardens-and-wikis/) framed the now-common metaphor: streams (Twitter), campfires (blogs), gardens (personal wikis). **What makes it good:** - Champions "non-performative blogging" — a garden as "an environment you can tend to and grow over decades" - Wiki folders sit alongside a regular blog, showing both modes can coexist - [Building a Digital Garden](https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/) is a practical how-to Related:: [[Digital Gardens MOC]] | [[Joel Hooks]]