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Philosophy

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Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

Oct 28, 2025

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6 min read

Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)

Oct 27, 2025

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6 min read

The Map Is Not the Territory (and It’s Definitely Not Progress)

How Smart People Stay Stuck

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

Oct 16, 2025

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6 min read

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

The Smartest People You Know Still Read Novels

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

Oct 9, 2025

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6 min read

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

Stop Trying to Pick the Perfect Path

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+4

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

Oct 5, 2025

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5 min read

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

Let the Storm Come

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

Why I Stopped Making Cameo Appearances in Other People’s Lives

Oct 3, 2025

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6 min read

Why I Stopped Making Cameo Appearances in Other People’s Lives

Friendship Doesn’t Owe You Forever

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

The Compound Effect of Consistency

Sep 30, 2025

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6 min read

The Compound Effect of Consistency

Everyone Wants the Breakout. Nobody Wants the Decade.

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+4

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

Sep 28, 2025

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8 min read

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

The Long Apprenticeship

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

The Danger of Stoic Sadism

Sep 24, 2025

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8 min read

The Danger of Stoic Sadism

When Resilience Turns into Cruelty

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Self Help

+2

Why Belief Beats Discipline

Sep 22, 2025

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8 min read

Why Belief Beats Discipline

The Three Steps: Pretend → Believe → Become

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

Westenberg.

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