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Joan Westenberg

I write about tech + humans + philosophy.

Essay

The Ordinary Sacred

Aug 31, 2025

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8 min read

The Ordinary Sacred

Life Doesn’t Happen in Highlights.

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

Your Best Friend Is Already a Text Box

Aug 21, 2025

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2 min read

Your Best Friend Is Already a Text Box

Westenberg Pro

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

The Compound Effect of Consistency

Aug 18, 2025

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4 min read

The Compound Effect of Consistency

Why Breaking Momentum Costs More Than You Think

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Podcast

Why Freedom Is Terrifying (And How To Hack It)

Aug 12, 2025

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2 min read

Why Freedom Is Terrifying (And How To Hack It)

Westenberg Podcast Episode 24

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

How We Traded Anxiety for Apathy

Aug 11, 2025

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5 min read

How We Traded Anxiety for Apathy

The Emotional RPM Redline That Broke Us

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

For Every AI Tool, There is an Equal and Opposite AI Tool

Aug 8, 2025

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1 min read

For Every AI Tool, There is an Equal and Opposite AI Tool

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Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

It Would Have Worked By Now

Aug 4, 2025

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7 min read

It Would Have Worked By Now

When Persistence Becomes Delusion

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg
Members-Only Q&A

Jul 31, 2025

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2 min read

Members-Only Q&A

July Q&A

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

Why I Hate Booking Links

Jul 28, 2025

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6 min read

Why I Hate Booking Links

A Defense of Calendar Sovereignty

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

The Algorithmic Personality

Jul 25, 2025

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1 min read

The Algorithmic Personality

Members Only

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

Everything is a Distribution Problem

Jul 23, 2025

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8 min read

Everything is a Distribution Problem

The World Is Full of Resources. They’re Just in the Wrong Places.

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Podcast

I Was Wrong About Being Wrong (And You Probably Are Too)

Jul 21, 2025

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2 min read

I Was Wrong About Being Wrong (And You Probably Are Too)

Westenberg Podcast Episode 23

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg
Why the Best Ideas Don't Always Win

Jul 21, 2025

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7 min read

Why the Best Ideas Don't Always Win

The Replication Game: When Virality Trumps Veracity

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

What the Renaissance Taught Me About Leverage

Jul 18, 2025

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2 min read

What the Renaissance Taught Me About Leverage

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Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

Why Cringe Tolerance Separates Builders from Non-Builders

Jul 16, 2025

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6 min read

Why Cringe Tolerance Separates Builders from Non-Builders

Perfectionism Kills Potential

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

How to Make People Give a Damn

Jul 14, 2025

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10 min read

How to Make People Give a Damn

The Internet Is Dying for Something Real

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Podcast

The Unbearable Lightness of Cringe

Jul 10, 2025

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2 min read

The Unbearable Lightness of Cringe

Westenberg Podcast Episode 17

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

Eternal Recurrence as a Design Test

Jul 10, 2025

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2 min read

Eternal Recurrence as a Design Test

WWND: What Would Nietzsche Do

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

Why a Maximum Viable Promise Beats an MVP

Jul 7, 2025

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9 min read

Why a Maximum Viable Promise Beats an MVP

Sell the Dream, Ship the Excuse, Raise on the Delta

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

I Spent 90 Days Rebuilding My Brain. Here's What I Learned.

Jul 7, 2025

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15 min read

I Spent 90 Days Rebuilding My Brain. Here's What I Learned.

No Hacks. No Apps. Just Rules, Paper, and Silence.

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Podcast

Good Faith is Dead...

Jul 4, 2025

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2 min read

Good Faith is Dead...

Westenberg Podcast Episode 16

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Podcast

Why The Smartest People I Know Set Constraints, Not Goals

Jul 3, 2025

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2 min read

Why The Smartest People I Know Set Constraints, Not Goals

Westenberg Podcast Episode 15

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

How to Become a Time Billionaire

Jul 3, 2025

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10 min read

How to Become a Time Billionaire

Owning Time in a World That Sells It Back to You

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Podcast

How to Become a Creator-Monk

Jul 3, 2025

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2 min read

How to Become a Creator-Monk

Westenberg Podcast Episode 14

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg

Essay

The Unbearable Lightness of Cringe

Jul 1, 2025

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6 min read

The Unbearable Lightness of Cringe

Every Great Creator Pays the Tax. The Rest Stay Spectators

Joan Westenberg
Joan Westenberg
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