You're yearning for connection and 'aliveness'... spending too much time trapped behind screens.

Hunched over a computer -- the world passes by.

You're building beautiful things while screens hollow you out—notification by notification, scroll by scroll.

Some days you're ablaze. Writing, teaching, laughing, dancing around in sunlight.

Other days? Withered behind another screen. Low energy. No dance.

Familiar?

I'm grateful every day that ai broke my neck in 2008. It taught me to kneel. To face what matters. That our plans mean nothing without presence.

The Bloom Papers are a letter for anyone committed to growth. They connect a community of people committed to continued evolution.

An anti-Big Tech. A web of human intelligence—connected threads of light, off grid, offline.

An alternative to artificial intelligence, artificial life.

The Bloom Papers arrive with each New Moon. On paper by stamped mail. Twelve-ish pages, typewritten, folded, stamped.

Real postage. Real paper. Prompts for presence, healing, creatvity. To be enjoyed in real light... maybe outside.

But it's not just correspondence from me to you.

Members write back.

I include or interact with the profound ones. Pose questions. Solve riddles. So the papers are informed by the community. They come alive.

We match members for direct pen pal correspondence. Kindred spirits letting real thoughts fly.

Everything a little slower. By mail

No notifications. No timers. No arbitrary deadlines.

You know it's coming because the moon tells you.

The mailbox becomes interesting again.

After you join, you interact with screens ONCE for setup.

Then you close your laptop.

Everything else happens through the mail.

• No login portals

• No content libraries

• No videos to watch

• No email newsletters

• No digital reminders

• No usernames or passwords

• No checking if you "have access"

Watch the sky. Check the mail when the moon goes dark.

The Bloom Papers sends on the New Moon—a coach, guide, and mentor in an envelope. Tapping into wisdom greater than our own.

Tips for your eyes and ears to open to life itself. Inspiration for what you're creating. Community wisdom from others walking the path.

This isn't "less screen time."

These are visceral moments, threaded together by paper. Small totems to wake you from the digital dream for a while.

✓ Entrepreneurs who built something real but feel hollowed by screens
✓ Artists and creators who know their best work comes from presence, not productivity
✓ Healers and coaches who teach aliveness while sitting behind glass all day
✓ Parents modeling the balanced human life.
✓ Humans who are alive and want to be more alive

—this works if you're human.

AI doesn't know what season it is.

Present Company remembers.

Algorithms don't track the moon.

The Bloom Papers lives my natural rhythms.

The Bloom Papers are:

• Not content (they refuse to be passively consumed)

• Not contented (they disturb, they catalyze)

• Not contained (they spill beyond the page into your life)

• Not a course. Not a hack. Not a framework.

A community refusing to live entirely behind algorithms.

Building connection like roots beneath soil—invisible, essential, alive.

Shrugging off digital chains.

It all beginz with a physical letter—a sample of the transmission, the essence, a few details.

If this speaks to you, request your Bloom Letter below.

After that, one digital moment for monthly payment. Then pure analog.

The sky over Chapel Hill, flecked with falling oak leaves. This world screams to be seen.

This computer burns my eyes out.

We plant seeds.

We tend soil.

We help each other bloom.

While the world consumes content, we create presence.

In Bloom,
Steven Budden Jr.

Present Company