Philosophy

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

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

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

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 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

Philosophy

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

Philosophy

Oct 13, 2025

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6 min read

You Are Not the Final Generation

A Brief History of Doom

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

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 4, 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 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

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 17, 2025

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6 min read

Boarding Group One

Why Status Is Our Last Religion

JA Westenberg

Philosophy

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

How to Stay Sane in a World That Rewards Insanity

Letters to Your Younger Self Are a Scam

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.