Philosophy

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

Philosophy

Oct 28, 2025

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8 min read

Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World

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JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

Oct 20, 2025

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15 min read

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally Small

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

Oct 14, 2025

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6 min read

You Are Not the Final Generation

A Brief History of Doom

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

Oct 13, 2025

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7 min read

The Illusion of Independent Thought

Everyone’s a Philosopher Until the Algorithm Chooses the Tribe

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.

Oct 10, 2025

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4 min read

There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.

Just Keep Doing the Thing

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

Oct 8, 2025

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9 min read

Why Cynicism is Just Moral Cowardice

When Did Belief Became Cringe?

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

Oct 5, 2025

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5 min read

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

Let the Storm Come

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

The Sacred Object of a Generation is a $59 IKEA Shelf

Oct 4, 2025

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5 min read

The Sacred Object of a Generation is a $59 IKEA Shelf

The IKEA Bookshelf and the Death of Arrival

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

Oct 1, 2025

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5 min read

Originality is a Scam

Stop Waiting for Lightning

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

Sep 28, 2025

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8 min read

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

The Long Apprenticeship

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

We've Hit Personal Agency Hyperfinflation

Sep 25, 2025

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6 min read

We've Hit Personal Agency Hyperfinflation

The Empire of Convenience

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

Sep 24, 2025

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8 min read

The Danger of Stoic Sadism

When Resilience Turns into Cruelty

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

Sep 18, 2025

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6 min read

Boarding Group One

Why Status Is Our Last Religion

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World

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

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

You Are Not the Final Generation

The Illusion of Independent Thought

There is Only One Hack: Do it for a Decade.

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

Why Cynicism is Just Moral Cowardice

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

The Sacred Object of a Generation is a $59 IKEA Shelf

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

Originality is a Scam

The Compound Effect of Consistency

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

We've Hit Personal Agency Hyperfinflation

The Danger of Stoic Sadism

Boarding Group One

Westenberg.