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Essay

Personal Growth

+1

The Harvest Will Come

Dec 2, 2025

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5 min read

The Harvest Will Come

A Defense of Human Seasons

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Productivity

+1

Every Decision Has Three Costs: Time, Focus, and Optionality

Nov 24, 2025

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6 min read

Every Decision Has Three Costs: Time, Focus, and Optionality

Why Decisions Are More Expensive Than You Think

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

Your 80 Year Old Self Would Give Anything to Have the Day You're Having.

Nov 19, 2025

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7 min read

Your 80 Year Old Self Would Give Anything to Have the Day You're Having.

Before the Baseline Breaks

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Self Help

+2

Life Isn't Chess. It's Poker.

Nov 17, 2025

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7 min read

Life Isn't Chess. It's Poker.

The Power of Thinking in Bets

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Essay

We're All Unreliable Narrators
LockSimple

Nov 12, 2025

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6 min read

We're All Unreliable Narrators

Westenberg Pro

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity

Nov 9, 2025

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6 min read

How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity

Is There Still a Return on Being Reasonable?

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+4

Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam

Nov 7, 2025

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7 min read

Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam

The Futility of Trying to Tell Your Younger Self Anything Useful

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Productivity

+1

Be a Magpie. You'll Get More Done.

Nov 2, 2025

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6 min read

Be a Magpie. You'll Get More Done.

The Magpie Method = No Method + Every Method

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+4

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

Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World
LockSimple

Oct 28, 2025

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8 min read

Cheap Certainty Is Eating the World

Westenberg Pro

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

+2

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

Oct 19, 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
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

Why Stories Make You Smarter Than Self-Help Books

Oct 15, 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

+2

You Are Not the Final Generation

Oct 13, 2025

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6 min read

You Are Not the Final Generation

A Brief History of Doom

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

The Illusion of Independent Thought

Oct 12, 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
JA Westenberg

Productivity

+2

996 Just Means You Have No Leverage

Oct 11, 2025

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5 min read

996 Just Means You Have No Leverage

The Performance of Work Is Not Work

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+3

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
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

Productivity

+2

The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption

Oct 8, 2025

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5 min read

The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption

The Slow Death of Mastery

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+2

Why Cynicism is Just Moral Cowardice

Oct 8, 2025

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9 min read

Why Cynicism is Just Moral Cowardice

When Did Belief Became Cringe?

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+4

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

Oct 4, 2025

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5 min read

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

Let the Storm Come

JA Westenberg
JA Westenberg

Philosophy

+2

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

Oct 3, 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
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

Originality is a Scam

Oct 1, 2025

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5 min read

Originality is a Scam

Stop Waiting for Lightning

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
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