# Oliver's Garden <style> .avatar-background { position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; z-index: -1; opacity: 0.05; background-image: url('https://source.boringavatars.com/marble/1200/Oliver%20Garden?colors=dbd9d3,c1c9c8,a5b5ab,949a8e,615566'); background-repeat: repeat; background-size: 400px 400px; } </style> Hi there! 👋 I'm Oliver, and this is my digital garden - a space where I cultivate ideas and document my learning journey. By day, I work in tech, but I'm endlessly curious about everything from system design to habit formation. ## What I'm Up To Now 🌱 I'm knee-deep in a few exciting projects: - Building a better [[Digital Garden]] (because wow, my notes are a mess!) - Getting smarter about [[System Design]] (distributed systems are fascinating... and tricky) - Finally reading [[Books/Atomic Habits|Atomic Habits]] (and actually implementing it this time!) ## Where You'll Find My Thoughts 💭 ### Tech Adventures 🚀 - [[Tech/index|My Tech Notes]] - Where I try to document everything I learn - [[System Design/index|System Design]] - Because I keep having to relearn this stuff - [[Code Patterns/index|Code Patterns]] - Things I wish someone had told me earlier ### Career & Growth 📈 - [[Career Map|Career Notes]] - The good, the bad, and the awkward moments - [[Skills Matrix|What I Know]] - And the ever-growing list of what I need to learn - [[Leadership/index|Leadership]] - Learning to lead (and trying not to mess it up too badly) ## Current Experiments 🧪 I'm working on getting better at: - Tracking [[Health/Health Metrics|health metrics]] (because data is fascinating) - Understanding [[Health/Cue-Routine-Reward|habit formation]] (it's harder than it looks!) - Building a better [[Learning Atlas|learning system]] (eternal work in progress) ## Recent Additions 📝 - Notes on [[Health/RICE|injury recovery]] (because I never learn... literally) - Thoughts on [[Health/Cue-Routine-Reward|behavior change]] - [[Health/Health Metrics|Health tracking]] system (attempt #457, but who's counting?) ## Questions That Keep Me Up At Night 🤔 1. How do we make habits stick? (Still working on this one) 2. What makes knowledge truly useful? 3. How can we learn better? > Keep it simple, make it useful. That's what I'm trying to do here. ## Let's Connect! 🤝 I love hearing from others on similar journeys. Feel free to reach out if anything here resonates with you or if you want to chat about: - Digital gardens and knowledge management - System design and architecture - The endless pursuit of better habits - Or really, anything that catches your curiosity! > [!tip] Want to know more? > I'm putting together a guide about [[Digital Garden|Digital Gardening]] and how I think about [[Living documents]]. It's a work in progress, like everything here! Remember: The best discoveries happen when you follow your curiosity. Feel free to wander around!