Data Gardening is the ongoing cultivation of your data’s value. In my case, data in the form of content on my website. For a start.

Data Driven Serfdom occurs any time a person is either required or manipulated into virtually existing on someone else’s platform and they are not given a fair stake in the value generated from their data.

Sure, we had a coup, but it was a dumb one and doesn’t really count. And yes, we might still technically be in the midst of a once in a century global health crises, but there’s a vaccine now and that solved the whole thing and to pretend otherwise is a bit dramatic.