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Philosophy

+1

Boarding Group One

Sep 18, 2025

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6 min read

Boarding Group One

Why Status Is Our Last Religion

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Self Help

+2

Don't Make Your Bed

Sep 16, 2025

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5 min read

Don't Make Your Bed

Your Bed Isn’t the Problem

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Productivity

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Why Billionaire Productivity Hacks Won’t Work for You

Sep 15, 2025

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7 min read

Why Billionaire Productivity Hacks Won’t Work for You

Productivity Without Context is Just Noise

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Essay

Abundance Now

Sep 12, 2025

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6 min read

Abundance Now

Why We’re Allergic to Plenty

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Essay

The Ordinary Sacred

Aug 31, 2025

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8 min read

The Ordinary Sacred

Life Doesn’t Happen in Highlights.

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

Members Only

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Essay

The Algorithmic Personality

Jul 25, 2025

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1 min read

The Algorithmic Personality

Members Only

JA Westenberg
JA 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.

JA Westenberg
JA 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

Members Only

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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.

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA 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

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Essay

The Good Life Is a Moving Target

Jun 27, 2025

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7 min read

The Good Life Is a Moving Target

The Last Remaining Acts of Moral Agency

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Essay

The Line at Agincourt

Jun 25, 2025

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2 min read

The Line at Agincourt

Why Hierarchical Systems Collapse Under Mud and Rain

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Essay

The Spoken Word Is the Hinge of History

Jun 23, 2025

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6 min read

The Spoken Word Is the Hinge of History

Guest Post

JA Westenberg
Alexander Westenberg
JA Westenberg, +1

Essay

Cognitive Offshoring and the Decline of Personal Thought

Jun 23, 2025

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7 min read

Cognitive Offshoring and the Decline of Personal Thought

“I would prefer not to”: Bartleby the Scrivener, and the Modern Knowledge Worker

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg
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