Garden Blooms
Sister Publications
A list of possibilities
Before I founded the Garden of Neuro Institute, I was writing on Medium.
I’ve been here since 2016. These were early days for the platform. No one seemed to fully understand the technology. Medium didn’t give much by way of instruction. If you were a technologist, you could navigate with the ease your tech training offered you. There wasn’t a paywall. It was free to join, and open.
People wrote here because they loved writing. They loved sharing. They loved community.
Some of us still feel that way about Medium. And so, we continue on doing what we love, despite the dangling dollar carrots.
I currently own and run five publications. Each was an experiment.
My first publication, called Law of Connections, I envisioned as something beautiful, full of essays and photojournalism, and posts that would be written in multiple languages. It never really took off. I’d be delighted to work with anyone who’d like to co-edit, and train and learn about how to manage and edit a Medium publication, while building audience and community, and continue accepting contributions on this lovely dormant publication.
My second publication was MuddyUm. It’s been the most fun and most successful pub. It was started in 2019.
At about the same time I founded MuddyUm, I also founded Contemplate. This publication is still very active, and accepts a broad range of more serious writing. Many of the MuddyUm editors are also editors for Contemplate.
In 2019 I also started To The Summit.
It was intended to be an alternative publication to The Ascent and The Startup. The idea was to have a home for those business and performance related pieces, but to edit with the same philosophy I used for MuddyUm — edit well, publish quickly, and don’t let posts languish in the queue for weeks with little to no communication with writers. Great idea, but not enough focus or bandwidth on my part. I was more drawn to building audience, content and community in the humor and comedy space. This is another publication that could benefit greatly by co-editorship and renewed energy and focus.
In the autumn of 2020, I founded an organization that I believed would become a for-profit business, called the Garden of Neuro. It was built with Lean Startup principles, and in 2022, was registered as a non-profit institute, and renamed Garden of Neuro Institute. It has its own publication. Its writers are exclusively women who are members of the Institute. The institute is the umbrella organization for all the publications I started, and are run under the auspices and guidance of the Institute’s 501(c)3 public charity status and sociocratic governance system.
To become a writer, editor or co-editor for any of these publications, leave a comment or send an email to [email protected].
