# The Informed Life With Maggie Appleton  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jorge Arango]] - Full Title: The Informed Life With Maggie Appleton - Category: #articles - Summary: What’s the right balance between top-down and bottom-up structure in personal publishing? - URL: https://jarango.com/2023/07/17/the-informed-life-with-maggie-appleton/ ## Highlights - it essentially is a personal website, just like a blog. But instead of publishing fully finished posts in a chronological order, it instead has more of a wiki-like structure. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6cs8cngrjdcwhjernyztj1q)) - So, the qualities are: it’s non chronological, all the pages are deeply interlinked, and it’s very imperfect – you grow it slowly over time. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6cs93a0nc9bxgj8znbwzzfj)) - I’ve just found that writing in public in a way that doesn’t feel too high pressure has made me a much more critical thinker. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6cws83tva2r11hrydqyxap3))