Westenberg.
Field Notes on Now.
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Cognitive Offshoring and the Decline of Personal Thought
“I would prefer not to”: Bartleby the Scrivener, and the Modern Knowledge Worker
The End of Monoculture
The Future Belongs to Substack Zealots, Discord Priests, and 300-Copy Zines
The Creator-Monk Path: Solitude, Output, and Building a Life That Doesn’t Scale
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I Deleted My Second Brain
Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save
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A few tweaks and changes (no, I’m not raising prices)
The Art of Not Sharing
It’s a typical Monday morning. You wake up, reach for your phone, and within seconds, you’re scrolling through an endless stream of updates. Your college roommate has a
Just Show Up.
You can control exactly one thing: that you show up. Every day. That’s about it. Showing up isn’t a silver bullet. It’s not an easy win. It’
I Miss the Internet
I know this is going to make me sound old – but I miss the internet. The real internet. The one we used to have. Before it all got so much
The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI.
We have witnessed a multi-generational decline in reading comprehension. We read less, retain less of what we read, and struggle to engage in critical analysis. And if this trend continues,
I Work On A 5 Year Time Frame. Anything Less Is A Loss.
I have a rule: I don’t start anything I’m not willing to commit five years of my life to. No projects I’m going to get bored with
The Observer Effect and Social Media - How Constant Observation Warps Us All
The act of watching changes what’s being observed. In physics, this is known as the Observer Effect. Electrons, photons—they behave differently when under our gaze, as if they’
"World War 3" is Not Inevitable: How Sequential Thinking Shapes Our Perception of Conflict
The moment we started numbering world wars like entries in a blockbuster movie franchise, we set ourselves up for failure. The war of 1914 was called The Great War at