A few months ago my friend Eli was sharing his screen and opened a new tab on his browser. Instead of the usual inspirational quote or clock extension, commonly-visited tabs, or my personal pet peeve - recent breaking news articles and photos from disaster zones - his new tab was … | Continue reading

Midjourney By the time I got my first computer, connecting to the world wide web was a quiet affair. No longer was it screeching boops and beeps; a process I watched but had only later come to understand as computers talking to each other on the lines we humans built to talk to … | Continue reading

Fourth of July Trailhead, Nederland, CO I recently hosted (my first ever) writing workshop on journaling at Burning Man. These are my notes in blog post form - thanks Alex for the idea! The workshop and this post are a spiritual successor to a post from a few years ago. Thanks t … | Continue reading

In the playa, looking west at the city. Hello world. I’m writing this on the heels of a week out in the desert at Burning Man: fully offline and thoroughly dusty. In the days since Savannah and I have returned to Boulder, we’ve been unpacking, cleaning, and de-muddifying all our … | Continue reading

A bit late, but better late than never. A collection of journal excerpts and photos from a wonderful year. I concluded my nomad journey and settled into a new city. Made new friends, fell in love, and built awesome things with incredible friends.Read thoroughly or skim casually; … | Continue reading

The last time we played this game, I was astonished at how fun and generative it was. I believe the reasons for that came down to: just enough constraints. we had to split things into content, and metadata. and get it published on a markdown 11ty site. the rest was up to each of … | Continue reading

6 weeks near Silver Strand Beach, Coronado, CA Some time ago I wrote about my intentions to live with friends in nature to satisfy my desire for community, access to outdoors, and convenience. I wrote it from my childhood bedroom during quarantine amidst the California summer fi … | Continue reading

📍 writing indoors from Boulder, COChautauqua Park, Boulder, CO We’ve officially entered winter. There’s snow piling up outside, I’m drinking hot chocolate again, and going outdoors is a bit like going into outer space. Though living in New York did expose me to snow, it … | Continue reading

Boulder Valley Ranch, CO written in response to Savannah’s wonderful promptI’d like to start by trying on “makes” in that prompt instead of “is”. A meaningful life is dynamic, a state to exist in; it is not “achieved” or “found” to be held on to, nor can it be compared or measur … | Continue reading

A post from the archives, capturing the moment I realized I was ready for a more stable & calm existence, prompting me to start making my way up north to Boulder, CO where I reside now. We are still in negotiation with the insurance company. Lightly edited in the time since. the … | Continue reading

Sanitas Valley, Boulder, CO It’s been 19 months since I last took mushrooms on a hike with a friend in San Diego, CA. Apart from an acid trip, I haven’t returned to that space in the time since. Now that I’m settled in Boulder I feel I’m in a place where I can explore them again … | Continue reading

📍 writing from Boulder, CODakota Ridge Trail, Sanitas Valley, Boulder, CO So I don’t know. Where are we now. My mind has been blown. The world has a greater capacity to surprise me than I have the capacity to predict its surprises. That much has been true for a while bu … | Continue reading

📍 writing from Boulder, CODakota Ridge Trail, Sanitas Valley, Boulder, CO In the mornings I like to get outside as soon as possible, to walk the 17 minutes to the second-nearest cafe for a coffee and a croissant. Some mornings I take the long way home and sit on the benc … | Continue reading

settled into a year-long lease in Boulder, Colorado. thinking about digital writing, therapy, and journaling. Occasionally all at once. playing with buzzard.life, building Exquisite Land developing experimental social tech primitives thinking about moving this blog to blot buildi … | Continue reading

the Cloud. it's located in boulder, co Parts of my self are stored in the cloud, some in my squishy meat computer, and the rest are on my friends’ squishy meat computers. Friends who might be anyhwere on the planet and servers under my feet. Written journals, stored photos, part … | Continue reading

For the past 18 months I’ve been building as part of a squad we call buzzard. I first wrote a reflection on the experience six months ago. Another half year has uncovered new practices, questions, and potential directions of exploration.One shape of this collaboration is a live, … | Continue reading

An experimental post. Might feel similar to patch notes but want to play with the form. Probably post through blot first for a publish loop.I visited about a month ago and wasn’t planning on being back so soon. A few weeks prior my friend Cody and I got to scheming and came up wi … | Continue reading

Dakota Ridge Trail, Sanitas Valley, Boulder, CO 📍 writing from Boulder, COAlmost two months since arriving to Boulder: a newfound stillness, structure to my day, a consistent place to sleep. A few months ago a friend and I caught up. He lovingly advised I slow down in li … | Continue reading

There are almost eight billion of us on this planet, ten thousand likely very similar to yourself. The Internet is a typical person’s best hope for finding and connecting with them.I enjoy life in large part thanks to friends I made on the internet. These friendships have led to … | Continue reading

Fourteen days since I packed my rented Jeep Grand Cherokee full of my earthly possessions (and some new ones from Amazon), said my goodbyes to family, and set off east towards Denver. Naturally I decided to make the 18 hour drive in one go.I would look a little worse 24 hours lat … | Continue reading

Garner Pass in Torres del Paine 📍 writing from Roseville, CAIt’s been a wild few months. I was just starting to recover from a 100 kilometer trek through Patagonia 1 when a friend and I found ourselves crawling out of a totaled Ford Explorer2 in rural Chile, stranded in … | Continue reading

Leander, TX from my hammock post 11⁄100 - an exploration into the sort of internet spaces I’d like to be a part of. Inspired by recent directions of research in relational.fyi and conversations with friends.Most of the current internet is a dopamine-hooked fully-immersive casino … | Continue reading

view from the pool deck I’ve spent a decent amount of time in cities (New York, San Diego, Mexico City) but for the most part it’s been at ground level or in sub-five floor walkups. Some of my friends live in nice luxury towers along rivers and my visits there would give me a pe … | Continue reading

Tulum, Mexico posting from: Mexico City, Mexico. In this edition, driving back and forth a lot thoughts on resort culture and foreign money update on exquisite land got a new thing brewing currently reading year in review post… soon next steps Hello friends and hello 2022. I ho … | Continue reading

as much as I love my blog, suggesting others start their own like I did is too tall a technical ask. The hosted options come with their own pitfalls. Is there a better way? What might it look like? How do we get there? Over the past few years I’ve advised many friends to start bl … | Continue reading

post #5. I’ve spent the past half-year building with wonderful people I re/met on the internet. Our squad consists of a site, private Discord server, and a multisig wallet. With them we’ve developed a practice of building in the open and are in the midst of hosting our first expe … | Continue reading

at the Marisposa Monarch Butterfly Preserve posting from: Valle de Bravo, Mexicolife updates Hello friends. Five months and ten cities since my last patch notes, almost everything in my life has been significantly re-arranged once again. I’ve left my role at Ressemble and become … | Continue reading

Soumaya Museum in Mexico City Post three of my 100-post challenge. An attempt at putting my driving experiences into writing. As the set of driving experiences in a different country is massive and intimidating to write about, it helped to narrow it down to a singular element: h … | Continue reading

This is post #2 of my 100-post challenge. This one is for friends interested in writing practices and musings on how they might relate to publishing online and doing regular reflections.Portland, OR Over the past half-decade I’ve had an evolving and contentious relationship with … | Continue reading

The following are efforts I hope to contribute to over the following decades. If you’re researching, building, or excited about any of these – let’s chat!1. combining journaling + therapy Therapy needs to be more scalable. While it can achieve amazing things, its current form gen … | Continue reading

Socorro, NM It’s my birthday again. My second as a nomad and my first in a relationship. Some reflections on life, inspired by this past year of adventuring across the continent.Some are new learnings; others are re-discovering consistencies in life. Grateful to everyone in my l … | Continue reading

These are my semi-regular Patch Notes – updates on my life and things I’m learning and exploring. Subscribe here.In this release: 31 days in Huatulco, Oaxaca cities are chapters 28 nights later driving around where to next? cities vs beaches photos and assorted memories meta on … | Continue reading

These are my semi-regular Patch Notes – updates on my life and things I’m learning and exploring. Subscribe here.In this release: next steps, 2021 update my fractured online identity road tripping through the southwest Canyonlands National Park, UT After three thousand miles of … | Continue reading

Dry Creek, Roseville, CA. My secluded hammock spot. My year didn’t go to plan, but then again – nobody’s did. Terrible things happened, beautiful things happened. I’m very happy with where I am and grateful for those who made it possible.I’ve done my best to make time & place th … | Continue reading

These are my semi-regular Patch Notes – a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe here.In this release: I drove to Austin, TX Where is home? three habits for happiness Interhackt is wrapping up jborichevskiy.com is now jon.bo It’s been a while sin … | Continue reading

My digital life in a nutshell: I discover relevant content I don’t have time to consume, I find time and become overwhelmed with my scattered backlog, I wish the content were in a different format, and then I’m unable to find something again once I’ve consumed it. Not retaining e … | Continue reading

This world is far more beautiful and interconnected than my 16 or 20 year old self could have ever imagined.Here are a few things I’ve noticed over the years. I trust they will hold through the decades.Love 1. It all begins with and depends on and ends with love.2. Self-love make … | Continue reading

These are my semi-regular Patch Notes – a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe here.In this release: We’re settled into San Diego and are loving it How can we get this for 10x cheaper? On planes and noise pollution Patch Notes: six months in Ot … | Continue reading

My workstations have always been significant to me: they’re where I spend the majority of my waking hours. While they haven’t been too ergonomic or styled, I have gotten better at building and maintaining a healthy physical and mental environment around the workstations.Perhaps s … | Continue reading

This is an installment of my semi-regular Patch Notes – a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe here.In this release: I’m moving to San Diego! housing & lease agreements spreadsheets are hard and software is trash I re-installed MacOS and it was … | Continue reading

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here.In this release: Patch notes, blog posts, digital gardens, and life Commuting, travel, and carbon costs Ha … | Continue reading

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here.In this release: Cozyroom launched! I really don’t like this social isolation An update on [[post:friends- … | Continue reading

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here. In this release: The important stuff gets written down eventually The friends in nature thing is becoming … | Continue reading

I am looking to co-live with a small (4-6) group of people outside of busy city life. These people should be intellectually curious, learning or building something that excites them, and generally leading their lives in a manner congruent with a more equitable, empathetic, and in … | Continue reading

What does my ideal working environment look and feel like?I want to acknowledge what an absolute privilege it is to be able to build things digitally and get paid money through the internet for it. I hope with time this becomes the default working and learning environment for any … | Continue reading

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here. In this release: This update lives in Roam Research Cozyroom is moving forward I want you to join Twitter … | Continue reading

Cozyroom.xyz Helping Azlen build cozyroom.xyz, an experimental spatial audio environment to make online interactions feel more natural. Open questions: How do we increase the feeling of presence in online applications? Can we enable more realtime self-expression in mediums other … | Continue reading