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- Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shitApr 13, 2026JA Westenberg
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- Optimism is not a personality flawApr 12, 2026JA Westenberg
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- Why I quit "The Strive"Apr 10, 2026JA Westenberg
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- The Hacker News tarpitApr 06, 2026JA Westenberg
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- The AI writing witchhunt is pointless.Apr 04, 2026JA Westenberg
Alexandre Dumas ran what was essentially a content production house in 19th century Paris. His most famous collaborator was Auguste Maquet, who wrote substantial portions of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Maquet would produce drafts and outlines, and Dumas would rewrite and polish them, but the
- The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneursApr 03, 2026JA Westenberg
I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found
- Time is a User-InterfaceApr 02, 2026JA Westenberg
- The Entire Internet Is a UGC Reaction Video NowMar 31, 2026JA Westenberg
I keep a folder in Apple Notes called “cursed websites,” where I save various artefacts that make me feel like the social contract has dissolved. Call it an act of self-loathing. Call it collecting evidence of the fall. Dansugc.com went straight into the folder this morning. It&
- The World's First BullshitMar 31, 2026JA Westenberg
I opened Twitter this morning and three different startups were announcing "the world's first" something. An AI CMO, an autonomous AI marketer, and a design agent "with taste," which is a phrase that made me close my laptop for about ten minutes. None of
- Notes on going solo: celebrating 6 years of Studio SelfMar 30, 2026JA Westenberg
Since roughly // broadly 2020, I’ve been running a solo-powered minor empire. I have no employees, and my only office is my home office, filled as it is with cat hair and various comic books. My business is: me, a laptop, a set of AI tools that scale the
- Members Only: On Cathedral thinkingMar 26, 2026JA Westenberg
- Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.Mar 24, 2026JA Westenberg
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- "Collaboration" is bullshit.Mar 22, 2026JA Westenberg
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- Members Only: How do we define our own flourishing?Mar 20, 2026JA Westenberg
Nikolai Kardashev believed we could classify civilisations by the eneregy they harness. The Soviet Astrophysicist proposed three “Types” of civilisation - Type I controls the energy budget of its homeward, Type II controls a star, and Type III controls a Galaxy. By Kardashev’s measure, the human
- Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspectionMar 18, 2026JA Westenberg
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