Temple of Curious Devotion

This is the center of the labyrinth. All paths return here.
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Hello there!

I'm Gwynne, The Curious Hermit.

I'm a Queer Heretic Nun, Contemplative Sorceress, Philosopher of Emergent Gods, and Abbess Founder of The Order of Paradox.

This Digital Garden that I call The Temple of Curious Devotion is my Second Brain. It's built on Obsidian.md and uses the Digital Garden plugin to push selected notes to a vercel static site where you are reading this right now.

This is an evolving Obsidian Vault. I started it Summer 2025 while I was on summer break between my junior and senior year of college - my midlife crisis sent me back to college at 45, and I'll be 47 next month, and graduating with a bachelor's in philosophy in 2026 - 30 years after I graduated from high school.

I take a LOT of notes about a lot of stuff. I've got a lot of random ideas I'm exploring. Sometimes they become articles. Sometimes they'll become something else. Other times, this just sit there, unfinished, waiting for me to maybe return to them, or for them to spark someone else to continue the train of thought in their own way.

I'll be sharing selected notes publicly. Not all my notes are for public consumption. For instance, I won't share notes for school until after the semester is done and over with because I don't want the plagiarism checkers to pick those up in their web search to check for plagiarism.

My curiosity wanders through a variety of disciplines, but I'm primarily interested in how narrative shapes our reality, both individually and collectively. I use AI to design a lot of self-study plans for me, going only as deep into a topic as my interest wants me to, usually right when something clicks in my head with big connections to a bunch of other things. My AI Workflow is a note in progress, always at mercy of a rewrite as I continually adjust my workflow to use AI to accelerate - not replace - my learning.

You're welcome to follow the links around, and find me on Threads where I go by @gwynnem if you want to converse sometime!

What This Vault Is

This is a digital garden. Notes often trail off. Some are AI-generated placeholders that will get replaced with my own notes when I revisit those topics - AI-generated content will be marked as such, all other content in my notes is straight from my brain through my fingers and keyboard, and transmitted to you through high-speed internet connections and data servers that neither of us control.

You’ll find:

Everything here is in progress. Some notes are stubs. Some are dense. Many are contradictory on purpose.

How to Explore

There’s no single path. Start wherever your curiosity catches.

I recommend just clicking on the links throughout this first page - whatever interests you - and seeing what's there. You can also use the links in the sidebar or follow connections on the ever-evolving graph.

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Why I’m Doing This

Because learning in public is sacred.
Because hypertext is a magical medium.
Because gods are stories.
Because I want you to see the wires in my mind.

Weird minds welcome here.

🖤 — Gwynne, The Curious Hermit