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
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: Fascinating work in the knowledge sharing space I mocked up what the browser might look … | Continue reading
by [[Sönke Ahrens]] Progress: finished [[May 11th, 2020]] Topics #writing #learning #zettelkasten #research #productivity Meta Writing notes about a book teaching me how to write notes is a very interesting experience What’s the best software to emulate this system? How to eas … | 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: Shared social cognition and the effect of distance on it Importing my goals and values in … | 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 version: I did a hackathon! Hyperlinks, and making them better Thoughts on Bitcoin and Gwern’s ‘B … | 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 version: An exploration into virtual online parties and how we might make them happen My journey i … | Continue reading
Hello! You’re receiving this because you are subscribed to major updates/new posts on my site, jborichevskiy.com. That will remain the case.I’m also starting a newsletter! I’m sending out the first one here, but subsequent newsletters will be delivered through Substack at jborich … | Continue reading
A mere three weeks ago I triumphantly published a post on my home-baked productivity system describing how I’d successfully taken control of distractions in my life to get shit done. I was invincible. On top of the world.Roughly around the same time I started paying serious atten … | Continue reading
Ever since getting onto the internet I’ve had a massive problem remaining productive and focused on the task at hand. This post describes the system I’m developing to help me cope with this sea of distractions, and I hope it might help you as well. Years of fighting myself with v … | Continue reading
I don’t spend much on physical stuff. It’s not that I’m a minimalist - I have just as much needless crap lying around as the next person. It’s simply that I care far more about experiences and time rather than physical possessions. I shop for clothing two or three times a year. I … | Continue reading
It’s been a long year. I learned a lot about the world as well as myself. Cried more than ever. Accomplished a few things and failed at many more. Some reflections and observations, and related readings.Personal / Life Be yourself. Because that’s the coolest version of you there … | Continue reading
For me, healthy living consists of sleeping well, a clean diet, frequent exercise, journaling, meditation, and socializing. Once in a while I let stress get the better of me and this causes my life to start spiraling and sliding out of control: deadlines start getting missed, ema … | Continue reading
People have been asking me what I’m doing with my life, what my next steps are, where I’m going to be living, what my goals are, when I’m getting married, how many grandkids I’m going to have…. I wish I could tell them - because I sure as hell don’t know. Life’s really unpredicta … | Continue reading
A simple thing, on paper. Get a piece of it out and start writing. Or typing - doesn’t really matter. Anything and everything that comes to mind. It’s weird and unnatural at first - push through it. Save it, or burn it. Don’t overthink it. Wait a few days, and do it again, and ag … | Continue reading
Occasionally I speak with people considering an opportunity to move away from the place they call home to somewhere entirely new - be it for work, school, temporarily or indefinitely. I remember myself making that decision and the questions I had swirling around in my head. Hopef … | Continue reading
The idea for the title of my site as well as the best description of my life philosophy I’ve read so far originally came from a post of Tim Urban’s I read a long time ago. The basic premise (though he does a much more wonderful job of explaining it and you should go read it now) … | Continue reading