🅱️ Bonsai 10 – The forest and the trees
Hello Friends, Like many of you this holiday season, Nidhi and I decided to remain at home instead of traveling across the country to be with family. The...
🅱️ Bonsai 09 – Music to my ears
Hello Friends, Relief. After living through 4 years of deliberately incompetent and belligerent leadership, a majority of Americans have chosen to course...
🅱️ Bonsai 08 – Core values emerge
Hello Friends, I’ve been burned out. Emotionally, spiritually, and creatively. That’s why I haven’t sent a Bonsai email to you since April (when I wrote a...
🅱️ Bonsai: July Recap and Playlist
Hello Partners, I’ve had multiple stay-up-past-1AM-work-nights in the past couple of weeks, and Nidhi and I are also in the middle of moving apartments which...
🅱️ Bonsai: June Recap and Playlist
Hello Partners, We’re half way through 2020 (!) which means we’re one month away from the end of Bonsai Season 1. Concluding Season 1 The end of July will be...
🅱️ Bonsai: May Update and Playlist
Hello Partners, Apologies for being about a week behind on this update. The last month has been exhausting with the unrest in America. While I only managed...
🅱️ Bonsai: April update and playlist
Hello Partners! This month’s primary Bonsai work was creating a new central home for partner perks: jstnbrbr.com/perks Password: garden This is what you’ll...
🅱️ Bonsai: 07 – All about Netflix
Hello Friends, Would it be irresponsible or refreshing of me to avoid mentioning COVID-19 in the first sentence of this email? I guess we’ll never know. I’ve...
🅱️ Bonsai: March Update and Playlist
Hello Partners! I hope you’re all staying healthy, safe, and sane. The month of March has felt like it’s contained an entire year’s worth of…fatigue? Thanks...
🅱️ Bonsai: 06 – iPads, jam, oh my!
Hello Friends, I’ve purchased goods from an online stranger twice in my life: seven years ago when I bought a used iPod touch on eBay, and then a few weeks...
🅱️Bonsai: February Update
Hello Partners! For the entire month of February I felt like I was riding an emotional pendulum – the contrast between life’s highs and lows was especially...
🅱️ Bonsai: 05 – Lessons from walking
Hello Friends, Every day for the past five years I’ve driven myself to and from work. But no more! Nidhi and I have swapped roles -- she drives herself to...
🅱️Bonsai: January Update
Hello Partners! We’re halfway through the first year of Bonsai projects, and I wanted to give a quick recap of all the work that you’ve enabled me to...
🅱️ Bonsai: 04 – What will the future be like?
Hello Friends, I hope you're enjoying the holidays — I’m back in Tokyo with my wife’s family in an attempt to see how much of my mother-in-law’s homemade...