# About Everything is connected. That's why I believe if you're interested in a few things, via connections you can get interested in and learn everything. Absolutely everything. Nothing exists in a vacuum. All we need is a map with points of interests. And that's what Lilypad is all about. We want you to start from **interesting, tangible, and bite-sized** mini topics (they're called [[What makes a pad|pads]] here), and expand from there in small, doable steps. Just like a frog jumping between lily pads in a pond. --- Lilypad is a side project started by Erica Xu in August 2023, when she is about to turn 30. Thanks for inspiration from Quinn Dai & Gin Jiang as they work on [AFAIK](https://afaik.io/). # Contributing If you'd like to contribute to Lilypad and become a curator, please [open a pull request on our GitHub repo](https://github.com/ericaxu/lilypad/pulls).