Roadmap

This roadmap tracks the main directions of the research garden.

Near-term priorities

• Keep curating rough idea backlogs into public, studyable notes.
• Group notes into domains such as dreams, self-control, social change, identity, and attention.
• Identify which notes are mature enough to become student projects or collaborator conversations.
• Keep garden/ as the single source of truth for public notes.

Medium-term directions

• Develop a small set of book-based intervention studies.
• Organize identity-based approaches to polarization and public health.
• Explore how AI can help generate, simulate, critique, and improve social psychological research.
• Keep the archive lightweight rather than forcing notes into a book structure.
• Consider filtered graph views for ideas, current projects, and publications.

Maintenance rhythm

Update notes when their status changes, a next action is completed, or a student or collaborator could pick up the thread.

Future site architecture

One future option is to represent three stages of the research pipeline:

• ideas
• current projects
• publications

The simplest path is one Quartz site with metadata such as type: idea, type: project, or type: publication. Later, the site could filter the graph by type or publish separate sub-sites for each layer.

Metadata convention

Use type to distinguish layers:

• type: idea for early-stage and developing ideas.
• type: project for current projects, studies, materials, and collaborations.
• type: publication for published or accepted papers, software papers, datasets, talks, and outputs.
• Preprint-only manuscripts should usually remain type: project until publication.
• type: essay for blog posts, public reflections, and conceptual writing.
• type: map for orientation pages.
• type: domain for topical entry points.

Use visibility to distinguish public prominence:

• visibility: public for pages that can be actively advertised.
• visibility: quiet-public for public notes that are available in the garden but not necessarily promoted.