Westenberg.
Field Notes on Now.
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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
Update (Paid Members)
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
How to Make Smarter Decisions with Bayesian Thinking
In 1763, a revolutionary paper on human thinking was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The author, Thomas Bayes, had died two years earlier, never knowing his
Don’t Confuse Volume with Truth
The human species isn’t on a steady decline into stupidity—it just feels that way. Why? because now everyone has a microphone. A few decades ago, the loudest voices
Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
The modern world has perfected the art of making us feel like we are never enough. Every waking moment is steeped in a vague, simmering anxiety, a sense that we