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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 3h

Punk’s not dead

it’s just raising a bridging round

JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 3h

The lifecycle of every online community is: good discussion, growth, eternal arguments about moderation policy, heat death

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 7h

If your explanation for why society is broken relies on everyone suddenly becoming more evil in 2016 you should probably workshop that theory a bit more

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 8h

Everyone’s getting radicalised I’m just trying to be rad

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 9h

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

Alt text: A tweet from Allie K. Miller reads: “This is absolutely insane and proof that voice is about to transform the workplace. At Wispr, employees use voice hundreds of times a day to multitask across their entire workflow. Here’s one dev using Cursor and Gmail simultaneously, all through WHISPERING, on a $10 mic.” Below the text is a photo of a man seated at a desk in a modern open-plan office, speaking softly into a small desktop microphone while looking at a wide computer monitor that displays code and an open Gmail inbox. The workspace has large windows, high ceilings, and exposed ventilation ducts.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 9h

You can tell how broken the discourse is by counting how many obvious truths you’re not allowed to mention without immediately adding seventeen caveats

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 15h

I've come to think that our capacity for self-forgetting is central to what makes us human.

We're at our best when we're not thinking about ourselves at all.

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/forget-fi...

Forget Finding Yourself. Lose Yourself Instead.

Stop Trying to Pick the Perfect Path

www.joanwestenberg.com

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 16h

Every online argument:

Person A: 'X is good'
Person B: 'So you're saying we should do X to an insane degree with no nuance?'
Person A: 'I didn't - '
Person B: 'DESTROYED by FACTS'

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 18h

IF YOU CANT HANDLE ME EMBEZZLING $12M FROM MY MENTAL HEALTH APP THEN YOU DONT DESERVE ME WHEN IM RINGING THE NASDAQ BELL. IM BUILDING IN PUBLIC

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

My roommate Malcolm Gladwell left a Post-it on the fridge that just says “Blink.” I haven’t eaten in 2 days. I’m scared to open it.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

No i will NOT explain what my company does. No there is NO product. Yes we spent the entire seed round on a rebrand. The logo is lowercase now. We’re worth $400M. I legally own your mum.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

I have officially given up on future proofing my life.

New on YouTube: why trying to predict AI is preventing us from doing what matters...

youtu.be/iZW_E5Se_rw

I'm Done Future Proofing My Life...

I have officially given up on future proofing my life. We've all seen the LinkedIn exhortation. Learn the right skills before the machines. Take the right jo...

www.youtube.com

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

my credit score is low because the system is rigged against people like me (people who have made countless catastrophic financial decisions and learned nothing from any of them)

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

read a book you low agency fucks. specifically the art of war which I have not read but assume supports my position

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

IF YOU THINK IM WEIRD FOR HAVING 47 JARS OF PICKLES IN MY APARTMENT THEN QUITE FRANKLY YOU ARE NOT READY FOR WHATS COMING

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

blocking everyone who said my “pyramid scheme” was “illegal” and or “gay”. you wouldnt recognize disruption if it came to your house at 3am with a duffel bag and a proposition

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

DEBATE MODERATOR: you cant keep saying “wrong” when we ask you to state your name
ME: leans into microphone Wrong.
MODERATOR: please
ME: Wrong.
MY MOM FROM AUDIENCE: you’re doing great honey

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

AI can write. AI can create videos. but can AI disappoint everyone who ever believed in it while also being somehow smug about it. no. thats the human spirit Aka my competitive advantage

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

I started Westenberg because I think the biggest questions - how to live, how to work, how to focus - deserve straight answers.

If you agree, I'd love to meet you.

Subscribe / support here:

Westenberg.

Where Builders Come to Think.

www.joanwestenberg.com

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 1d

The future isn’t exhausting because of how fast it moves.

It’s exhausting because nothing ever stays still long enough to master it.

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-exhau...