🌱 Welcome
Welcome to a garden that never stops growing.
This is my Digital Garden — where I write what I learn, link what I know, and debug what I don’t.
Some notes are evergreen, some are still seeds — all part of a living PKM system that evolves with how I think.
🚀 Start Exploring
Choose your path — the joy is in the discovery.
- 🧠 PKM Hub — second brain, workflows, systems of meaning
- 🏗 System Design — concepts, interviews, architecture maps
- 🛠 Project Glossary — real infra docs, dashboards, and templates
- 💭 Reflections & Dots — soft thoughts on decisions, growth, and learning
Recent Highlights
- On Choices & the Fault Tolerance in Life — Thoughts dump after seeing someone else’s struggle of choosing colleague major
- From Tennis to Life — A reflection after a deep talk with a tennis friend
- Investment 101 — Some investment mindsets for beginners
🧠 About Me
Infra Engineer by Day, Reflective Journaler by Night.
Hi, I’m Tianran (Nature). I’m a Software Engineer based in Singapore, focusing on Cloud & Infrastructure.
But that’s just part of the picture.
I’m also:
- 🧠 A PKM nerd — building my second brain in Obsidian, one linked insight at a time
- 🎾 A tennis player & fan — obsessed with footwork, match geometry, and ATP/WTA tour
- ✍️ A reflective thinker — I journal often, question deeply, and write to find clarity
- 🌱 A lifelong learner — curious about systems, growth, and how to live intentionally
This site is where I weave all these threads together — through notes, systems, and stories.
🪷 About this Garden
This is more than a blog or portfolio — it’s a Digital Garden, where ideas grow and evolve over time.
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📚 What this Digital Garden is & Why I Build it
What this space is, what it means to me, and why building it was hard (but worth it) -
🤔 How this Garden is Organized & How to Explore it
The design philosophy behind my structure — folders are for storage, maps are for navigation -
🔧 How I Built this Garden
The tech behind it: Quartz + Obsidian, and the lightweight publishing workflow -
🌱 How this Garden has Grown over Time
Snapshots of growth over time (graph views, structure updates)
This garden is never finished — and neither am I.
Thanks for visiting 🌿