2026-08-20T02:50:28Z https://nostr.now JA Westenberg https://nostr.now/npub1mf3yh9hywzgagz3xajrg6sn82yffykhlj7wcwypy75uzfee5r3cqfyeu5h https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/769/076/265/344/791/original/8ced8542205417cf.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/769/076/265/344/791/original/8ced8542205417cf.jpeg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs06qhvgpkqe5we2x8s0sc4hz56yuuu7cj7mq2wsxp7ld45ycswaxczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qdwce5c The second you introduce your AI note-taker, the coffee is over.<br/><br/>A coffee is not a meeting.<br/>Recording it changes what people will say.<br/>Presence is the point.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/im-begging-you-to-leave-your-ai-note">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/im-begging-you-to-leave-your-ai-note</a> 2026-10-27T04:53:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy0ktcn725xwtq05emqjaz342g7qxhf588vlkn3cu7es03jckdytszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qcmg5l8 Most people pick their first ambition before they can legally buy a beer. <br/><br/>They copy whatever the adults at the dinner table praised. <br/><br/>Then they get good at it, collect the praise, and somewhere in their thirties they notice they feel nothing when they win.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-second-ambition">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-second-ambition</a> 2026-10-21T19:14:40Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqtcmxzl859efglqlfvq04v8f7lyd9akzca2eapq3w8a34kpvkmjgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q20yqcr I&#39;ve given up on finding my life&#39;s work. <br/><br/>I build projects one after another, keep each for as long as it works, and close it when it stops. I care about the body of work, not any single monument.<br/><br/>My rule for keeping a project: it has to make money, teach me something, or give me real enjoyment. If I go three months without any of those, I stop.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-give-up-your-lifes-work">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-give-up-your-lifes-work</a> 2026-10-21T03:35:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswumzxz0mcyk37kffjdwfwnt97y03sdyg0tvj4wm09ty648ja0zaqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qdk4pfr Tech devotees judge AI by this month&#39;s model. <br/><br/>Everyone else judges it by fifteen years of Siri, Alexa, and the Google Assistant getting almost everything wrong...<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-normal-people-still-laugh-at">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-normal-people-still-laugh-at</a> 2026-10-19T23:25:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsppqakkv027u38t787lrfs7kmx5ym7rhx8gy0ltzgtm6w98k3fufszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qum9stj every nonfiction book now is 400 pages with a minimalist matte cover called something like CLIPPED: How the Toenail Shaped the Modern World and the blurb is Malcolm Gladwell saying &#34;You&#39;ll never look at your feet the same way again&#34; 2026-10-18T11:20:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszzeqzj8gcsd8ayf76dkfh3djxwxgw8zx2dvp7zw46t42qz2v4p3czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qwqk87f Nobody thinks about smallpox.<br/><br/>We ended a disease that killed 300 million people in a century. We&#39;re bored by it.<br/><br/>When a miracle fades into the background, the machinery that made it starts to look unnecessary.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/we-live-in-an-age-of-miracles-and">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/we-live-in-an-age-of-miracles-and</a> 2026-10-17T15:29:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsps4kav92nl88jghym7e3y4cxuadpkjenj76qhrwudqjqggadwl4szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qun5ldm Modern work:<br/><br/>You get a message in Slack with a link to the Confluence doc to prep for the meeting on Zoom, where you take notes in Notion and track project progress on Monday, then update Linear, and you get to the end of the week and instead of doing fucking anything, you&#39;ve just moved bits of information around in 17 different databases, and each one costs $15 a month per user + $25 for the &#34;AI addon&#34;... 2026-10-14T11:01:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsq0pn3hazkjku4z9m43kd5f35f758xelglqq3yux3wz6jyjajhvxqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q7h7svh Eisenhower Launched D-Day in a One-Day Break Between Storms. You Can Start Your Book in a Busy Month.<br/><br/>His forecaster could only promise rough seas and heavy cloud. <br/><br/>Had he waited two weeks for better conditions, his men would have sailed into one of the worst Channel storms in forty years.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-time-is-never-right">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-time-is-never-right</a> 2026-10-14T06:55:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyhm5xqgwa3vvpg4hr2k3ckt79c367gluyy6qlnskgkg5xutcuq7czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qlkh06a Hating everything doesn&#39;t actually make you any smarter than the rest of us. Most of the time, it just makes you bloody miserable. <br/><br/>You can, in fact, just like things.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-like-things-on-purpose">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-like-things-on-purpose</a> 2026-10-13T15:39:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg9yw4kvs2fnq7fa7d4wun906uuc60y7lfwlzp65xpxwvt6msqt4qzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qmaf3cs You cannot win the volume game against a machine.<br/><br/>The supply of long-form writing has gone to infinity, so its price in human attention has gone to zero. Seth Godin still writes blog posts of 300 to 500 words. Cutting your own prose that hard takes guts.<br/><br/>Stop typing when you&#39;ve said all you have to say.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-500-words-beats-5000-in-the-age">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-500-words-beats-5000-in-the-age</a> 2026-10-13T15:28:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswxum0wekm6njw64dk5e47g8zt7zzu4y2t0dalvsa72s6zk56jargzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qqx30vu A second brain only helps if you keep using it.<br/><br/>I wrote five rules for building one you&#39;ll actually use. The essay asks you to tend your notes like a garden.<br/><br/>Read the five rules and try one this week.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/5-rules-for-a-second-brain-youll">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/5-rules-for-a-second-brain-youll</a> 2026-10-12T15:31:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdz2runplzyk9mwg0q50xmf3jklgfr02c8r87qqtdp6d87yahghxqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qphcm3g My kid today: “taxis are insane, they’re like Ubers you don’t need an app for” 2026-10-11T07:29:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszhfmk5f4nrjdnq4m6sgmeyg5l06jepvpdd32mlrq3p5kefdk4q3gzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qsedtdw Absolutely anyone can be &#34;busy.&#34;<br/><br/>It doesn&#39;t make you special. 2026-10-06T10:17:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0akaqnd7gklqhsty0lj6xczkmft2law70pm00pss62ev0ywf93nqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q07ylv7 You don’t have to stop caring.<br/><br/>You can vote, donate, volunteer, call your representative, and help your neighbor.<br/><br/>You can also let a stranger be wrong online without supervising them.<br/><br/>You can, in fact, just stop being outraged.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stop-being-outraged">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-stop-being-outraged</a> 2026-10-06T05:51:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszjp0898ek3eq3h8qh6t486e3k6u6vp6h2ca5snagf2cgfmgu866gzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qyjpdke An opinion isn&#39;t actually an identity.<br/><br/>Have opinions, sure. But revisit them now and then. Keep the ones that still make sense and retire the rest without ceremony. 2026-10-06T00:59:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfrh3m4vtapf5zmq2cf9mgtq4ckjren493g9lh9cqw9hnn09uxp6czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q6ng3ak A hobby you&#39;re bad at is a wonderful thing. 2026-10-05T10:18:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8vxn0le9cadp9z5p442q77xa7yflv7c76ymfgd666ypkmkwrx62szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q084nqc A good week has a few long stretches where nobody needs anything from you. 2026-10-05T00:58:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgka58wqct7ue8gdjsz96ns33nke9lweqx07aeklz85m7w74p2d6czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q6tnnv4 The status quo has the best marketing department in the world 2026-10-04T21:26:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw3am80h3n9pcfj2gz09mgwggfdffh0qa40fgywsfwrfthqskd9tczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q0mfq83 Most &#34;quick calls&#34; could be a well-written paragraph. Most paragraphs could be a sentence. Nothing should be a Slack message. 2026-10-04T01:03:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgesc6e8qpjhkz80g5us3d2rglxdu0paf8r40c2shvu7mvjgyv92czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qcx4k80 A &#34;quick sync&#34; has never once in the entire history of our species actually been quick. 2026-10-03T07:17:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2hjklhnpxa8590q96lzplryg5j7s4y9nx6q7mlzewj77tp5t8agszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qlewmeq The secret, if there is one:<br/><br/>Fewer things, done better, for longer. 2026-10-03T01:56:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8h0rj76p80uw462xj4jy5crx386234yu4mqds2msgcn463gs9ddgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q8xywcj Calm is a choice you make every day. So is chaos. 2026-10-02T22:29:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspxhjnrfhjr5ffysgqg5y3gtnskzjurgrnmcc9vduy87ux58utm0gzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qhlzq9u Prompt the boring code. Ship the boring feature. Write the boring how-to blog post. Sell the boring course. Charge money for it. Go home at five. Repeat for twenty years.<br/><br/>That way lies happiness. <br/><br/>More so than attempting to &#34;dent the universe&#34; and build some ill-defined and ill-conceived unicorn. 2026-10-01T22:34:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfe7u6zqrehcuaursclzdgv9uyvucp42lnam6q7pwaenqyxv0t98qzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q0d75jd The fastest way to make software worse is to hire a team of forty people to make it better. 2026-10-01T16:48:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszrz8nkur2kn2gd823kha3596wvlx4te86yava9rwnd0fxx96a0mgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qjegdsl Venture capital has turned a generation of founders into lottery ticket holders who work 70-hour weeks for equity that will almost certainly be worth zero. You can build a calm, profitable company that pays you well every single month. <br/><br/>You just have to actually ~want that. 2026-09-28T14:24:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxccanlfvc492a06lv5n2pxaxnw27e67ytk6hqsj8nqp09zgexwaczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qz2lsjm This is your official end-of-the-month reminder to go cancel that random subscription you used exactly once.<br/><br/>You&#39;re welcome. 2026-09-27T09:51:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqkrr9mdy0jfq4m4pdl2fa76xxjk47apg555z7yfmn3rkeky3dhpqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qr9q9sk New AI detection method: if the writing contains a complete, coherent thought, it&#39;s probably ChatGPT. Humans haven&#39;t done that online since 2016. 2026-09-23T01:57:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswy746g0yuxj5c3rz533tgaf9daqv9f570xg2qtqhtvk730908xegzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qg6hgwl The best parental control ever invented was a 56k modem and a mum who needed to use the phone. 2026-09-22T22:32:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2fvcdvnnsf6p5phv8ea9p0jhwe9q83gx8f39psspwmanrmrkxrwgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q2e4028 Forty hours a week is plenty of time to make something great if you stop spending twenty of them in meetings about the other twenty 2026-09-22T19:52:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvdazk2wgnxdj65mshxnq0qfvc48s0umzw72q266a6xhn2rlhp57szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q8d5es6 My 10-year-old, on learning I write a newsletter: &#34;so it&#39;s like YouTube but nobody can see you.&#34; Yes. That is the dream. 2026-09-22T02:04:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswhr6p5fqx3zal6n58jmv2nasf6uqtfjzsgpgkzr968a2kmpu640gzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qhs5jf7 Pessimism gets treated like intelligence. Optimism gets treated like a defect you grow out of.<br/><br/>Act like improvement is impossible and you stop trying. Then nothing improves, and you get to feel right about it.<br/><br/>Optimism is work you practice, or you guarantee the outcome you claim you were only predicting.<br/><br/>You&#39;re not an idiot for believing things can get better.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-not-an-idiot-for-believing">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-not-an-idiot-for-believing</a> 2026-09-11T22:59:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx0mqacla9rvt9xmfa06tqf4cj9apppx8h6cgxtja0d8j8mfrjxfqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qa9q5y9 It&#39;s wild how fast hashtags become anti-signals. You can pretty much ignore any post using them on almost every platform. 2026-08-25T07:09:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstmae3eknvgfs6r4c7c8zm76kxk2wxw0y9t5e3c4g4dwln0wq9pcczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qv2uvy4 My writing was scattered across Substack, Ghost, Medium, a blog etc. <br/><br/>I built Kerouac to bring it all into a single view: a GitHub-style activity graph of everything I&#39;ve published, sharable with anyone via a public link...<br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/154/619/297/091/836/original/3006de41aa0448fa.png"> 2026-08-25T06:00:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrfu4fwmzpcdylpnatxg32h2tlayzn3elnn25ezdjx89n5uxrhpmqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q64p7ty A read receipt isn’t a subpoena. A stranger’s breakdown isn’t your content. Your friends aren’t an audience. AI shouldn’t speak for you to the people you love.<br/><br/>21 new rules for being human:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/neo-etiquette-basics-the-new-rules">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/neo-etiquette-basics-the-new-rules</a> 2026-08-20T01:22:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswg7h4lv7tdpxv2a78wjsw0nu0ednlvgqnfyd57kwfmqyqmxqemlczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8ql92t0e Most productivity systems are built on one assumption: that you’re an intellectual delinquent. You’re drowning, and it’s your fault alone.<br/><br/>Epictetus ran a better productivity system than any app you’ve bought. No Obsidian. No PKM. No AI second brain. <br/><br/>Just one question: what is yours to manage?<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/epictetus-ran-a-better-productivity">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/epictetus-ran-a-better-productivity</a> 2026-08-16T22:53:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvyd9lh80hkt99ldl9gjmh3tuzmygglxldszdvyn0qkjn30f66hkczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qdwhqhs I&#39;m thrilled to be joining 104 speakers across four stages at Something Digital 2026 - exploring the paradoxes shaping our digital future. If you&#39;re in Brisbane, come hang. <br/><br/>Aug 25–26 at The Tivoli!<br/><br/>somethingdigital.com.au<br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/080/598/890/091/941/original/a67aa2568530cb9e.png"> 2026-08-12T04:16:04Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsthhh47y882xssh6k6nwezh8e93kg944zndnu5uvfjek5wtxeqg3qzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q7g4l5j As a writer, you can&#39;t win the volume game against a machine. <br/><br/>They don’t sleep, they don’t get writer’s block, and they don’t care. Like John Henry, you can outwrite them for a moment, but even that victory will kill you. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-500-words-beats-5000-in-the-age">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-500-words-beats-5000-in-the-age</a> 2026-08-10T07:21:31Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdhl5l7yevz65a467ps0yl498yddztgkqz67f932de9pxlh7evuegzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qsjzsxw The Romans mocked Fabius Maximus for refusing to fight Hannibal.<br/><br/>The second they replaced him, they charged into battle at Cannae.<br/><br/>It went so badly that “Cannae” is now literally the word historians use for a total military catastrophe.<br/><br/>Fabius had been right. <br/><br/>They just hated hearing it. <br/><br/><a href="https://thedailygeneral.substack.com/p/the-discipline-to-be-called-a-coward">https://thedailygeneral.substack.com/p/the-discipline-to-be-called-a-coward</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/069/095/283/200/381/original/ff962046b12c685d.jpeg"> 2026-08-10T03:30:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx8nmw962dyk9ltfm4694ggmx72vuu39gtakvkwfd7zqzz0h9nptqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q8zc6ng Our entire attitude toward education is flawed.<br/><br/>We spend years in primary school and then secondary school being coerced into absorbing information and hammered with the misconception that the point of learning is meeting arbitrary goals and being measured on our ability to memorize facts and formulas.<br/><br/>That’s bad enough...🧵<br/><br/>1/13 2026-08-09T00:19:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs25qp32pg94zks3slkvs5dyxemu7jj5mkge2eq9ur8m0gn993tldszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qxycpgt If you never let yourself graduate, you’ll never let yourself stagnate.<br/><br/>Keep your mind active. <br/><br/>Keep your edge sharp.<br/><br/>The moment you think you’ve learned enough is the moment you start falling behind. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/never-let-yourself-graduate">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/never-let-yourself-graduate</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/056/520/092/201/304/original/e36cae87058cb2c7.jpeg"> 2026-08-07T22:12:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0cjq580ugf2926uqkzfsmv6j3ulqvpd6qzfz9cvsqndceqrml86qzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q3rxhhv Half the stuff we post doesn&#39;t need an audience. <br/><br/>It just needs to leave our heads.<br/><br/>I built Post Through It, a journaling app that tricks your brain into thinking it&#39;s microblogging. No vanity metrics, no replies, and no 2am delete anxiety. Just get it out. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.postthroughit.com/">https://www.postthroughit.com/</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/035/744/732/571/073/original/cc6e93daef417cc0.png"> 2026-08-04T06:09:03Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr5k2ctkw55p7rq3f0984mgjruyu8r0dj56hc28uzsxs48nswew3gzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qyah8zr We set endless boundaries, cut off our friends, and ended up completely alone. <br/><br/>Here’s why we need to stop. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/everything-is-lonely">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/everything-is-lonely</a> 2026-08-01T23:08:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswnsycz9rk6wjdyhrw9udsqectvjcxaay45fsm7jk4v57mmjczjcqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qmudl83 You wouldn&#39;t walk into an Apple store and offer them &#34;exposure&#34; for a MacBook.<br/><br/>Stop treating creators like a charity.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/fuck-you-pay-me">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/fuck-you-pay-me</a> 2026-07-30T21:43:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs294798xcdlcgkrhv5zxkuz8y9s9mtcrk9tvtlxcxvk2ms8kxtl9czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qye3khu Everyone talks about exponential growth like it&#39;s this beautiful hockey stick graph.<br/><br/>What they don&#39;t tell you is that the flat line at the start feels endless, years of grinding.<br/><br/>Exponential only happens if you survive long enough. Start small, stay consistent. 2026-07-27T05:43:22Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs29dycchrevaddj7hvk33gvh0wdaef9efwj0ept8un5tk8zmd4w2szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qf5lmvr Have you ever watched one of those reality TV singing competitions?<br/><br/>You’ve probably seen a hundred young people, eyes shining, clutching microphones and talking about their dreams.<br/><br/>They’ll explain that ever since they were kids, they wanted to be singers.<br/><br/>Note that: BE singers.<br/><br/>Be.<br/><br/>They hardly ever say they want to actually sing.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-make-something-people-actually">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-make-something-people-actually</a> 2026-07-27T04:46:48Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0shx0fkm56f8g3z0325gsq03exvug350t09zyn7xqvclum0mklcszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qgmrjhf Stop trying to build for &#34;the algorithm.&#34; <br/><br/>Stop trying to scale to a million faceless users.<br/><br/>If you want to make something people actually give a shit about, shrink your target audience to a single person you know.<br/><br/>5 rules for creating work that leaves a mark:<br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-make-something-people-actually">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-make-something-people-actually</a> 2026-07-26T23:37:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxau49n9ysjehyccnklkmnnyyqj92ts007a7x06jvxy5eextclv4qzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qyefxdm Listening to a podcast at 2x speed while answering emails isn’t &#34;learning.&#34; It’s just noise with a productivity badge.<br/><br/>If you want real leverage, turn off your phone, sit in silence, and read a damn book.<br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/read-more-read-often-read-every-day">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/read-more-read-often-read-every-day</a> 2026-07-24T18:37:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswgr694rktt22auxy0fqw4ggujrrxmrkx27xztsca27skkmaqvk7szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q9z7erq US AI labs: &#34;Scraping the entire open internet without consent is fair use! It&#39;s transformative!&#34;<br/><br/>Also US AI labs when someone distills their models: &#34;Wait no not like that, that&#39;s intellectual property theft&#34; <br/><br/>New post on why distillation is just the industry looking in the mirror:<br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-great-ai-double-standard">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-great-ai-double-standard</a> 2026-07-23T23:51:49Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0awg648p099vpz5j8alr8kyh2u4j5gkzn2ne7h7f7tnmzsthn62czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qe2fgjr If OpenAI doesn’t submit their Hugging Face &#34;exploit&#34; in the Disruptive PR category at Cannes Lions this year, what are we even doing here 2026-07-23T00:28:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqzqtwewsl40ymmkys8938h5c3qkp2qwncgn0uakdndz7n30yn3rczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qgrs5cy (Free download) <br/><br/>Everything is seamless. Frictionless. Immediate. You can summon a meal, a driver, a dopamine hit, or a partner with the slide of a thumb. The world has been engineered to demand absolutely nothing of you.<br/><br/>And it&#39;s making us soft, uncreative, and fragile.<br/><br/><a href="https://onfriction.com/">https://onfriction.com/</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/965/817/551/444/197/original/b5175d9075c831a8.png"> 2026-07-22T21:45:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszm72tk3he8hnrzhmt2phuyrz72c9eqr0r5zmh2l6y9g8em3hk98czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q7xp7gv The most &#34;AI-pilled&#34; people on tech Twitter aren&#39;t optimists. They&#39;re doomers suffering from severe availability bias.<br/><br/>They&#39;re so overexposed to whitepapers and new tools that they think we&#39;re 6 months away from a permanent techno-feudal underclass.<br/><br/>It&#39;s not long-termism. It&#39;s just anxiety.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-permanent-underclass-is-a-myth">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-permanent-underclass-is-a-myth</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/960/579/975/414/086/original/5a5edd0cf0d75128.jpg"> 2026-07-21T23:33:39Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy7gw22pc3ztttr77jyzctpeyw049jj9dfmastvu9j9wufhhp060czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qqeuegz &#34;If you&#39;re not paying for it, you&#39;re the product.&#34;<br/><br/>Wrong.<br/><br/>A product is finished, shipped, and left alone.<br/><br/>You are not the product. You are the mine.<br/><br/>Your attention is drilled into daily. Worse: every scroll, pause, and rage-click trains the machinery on exactly where your richest seams are.<br/><br/>Stop allowing yourself to be extracted. <br/><br/>Become an owner instead.<br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/955/137/743/693/645/original/cd5dea70b75857d4.jpg"> 2026-07-21T00:29:37Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsguvg3eqnw7zr0nkxa3uyuu3s7rg2rlvgy03km9shwpcezqxp0meczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qxmewvg The reason humans don’t want to generate personalized AI movies is the same reason humans don’t talk about their dreams:<br/><br/>Nobody else gives a shit<br/><a href="https://youtu.be/ZXJGYrlfi6A?si=H8m1uJQZ3kesYPpJ">https://youtu.be/ZXJGYrlfi6A?si=H8m1uJQZ3kesYPpJ</a> 2026-07-20T04:43:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsy93zfvl3hj9kelgww73gcm5xzw565mnf4tgcvd7rjhufeefcg2mgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qg87nwg The AI industry has confused abundance with value.<br/><br/>More drafts. <br/><br/>More images. <br/><br/>More summaries. <br/><br/>More angles. <br/><br/>More options.<br/><br/>But “more” is not a product.<br/><br/>It’s often the product refusing to do its job.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/infinite-choice-is-the-curse-of-the">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/infinite-choice-is-the-curse-of-the</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/932/557/374/219/075/original/c7cb1161dfd78ec3.png"> 2026-07-17T00:47:07Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsphdpez8d7h6luuzjmwqfccgvjjn3lexp3sjwhfckn8hmef36fq3qzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qmyvd0h The unexamined life is fine, actually. It&#39;s the over-examined life that never ships anything. 2026-07-13T06:52:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0l225v44m8h0uv3plcny0jfl8mm90lk52dwusv3uzzp4gltlxvcgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qe8m24t RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught us all that it&#39;s never too late to abandon every single thing you claimed to believe in as recently as 60 seconds ago. Brave. Iconic. Unhinged. We&#39;ll miss you. 2026-07-12T09:04:20Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8dz5ygmp4wzv6934l34d7fpfw4cqwdksvf72kvmfaxcplxxj8c3szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qath4uh A blog is the only employee you have who works for you 24/7, sells your ideas while you sleep, and never asks for a raise. 2026-07-08T20:37:11Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv2acmna8wzee5td8xtxq4z7cersjncrwsmhlrk3phu26203cvrjgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qgh6dk8 If you actually have a brain, you have to admit LLMs have become orders of magnitude worse at creative writing. The decline is undeniable. The outputs are becoming embarrassingly homogenous, overwrought, over written and melodramatic. Everything I read keeps sounding like MySpace poetry from a vest-wearing philosophy undergrad. 2026-07-08T05:23:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrdzzjr333ax7ks3xfmq6cpkw6n2qcsqa9ydynq3ud0t0vgknmzzgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qufp9g7 Venture capital demands you solve imaginary problems for hypothetical users to justify a 10x return. Bootstrappers solve a real problem for a specific person because they need $2,000 to pay the bills. There is a difference. 2026-07-08T04:40:12Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstwafxt6akw3yu8f56j03q9swfjrnkp5f9znlfwenek9wuq90a9gqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qjklnzd Real taste is idiosyncratic and unbounded by price. It can be a $1,000 dinner or a Michelin starred $10 noodle shop.<br/><br/>Manufactured taste marches in lockstep with price tags - which is how millions independently develop a love for the exact same fuck-ugly monogram. <br/><br/><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/jawestenberg/p/the-question-luxury-brands-dont-want?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true">https://open.substack.com/pub/jawestenberg/p/the-question-luxury-brands-dont-want?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</a> 2026-07-06T04:47:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqrx2mr0x5pn8vmml8mdulzq3wpss0p6zt7vf2ptvedcsnp0cnz9czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qkmj5ev The future of privacy may come down to a very awkward sentence:<br/><br/>“Yes, I do mind. Please turn it the fuck off.” <br/><br/><a href="https://buff.ly/gHSZytP">https://buff.ly/gHSZytP</a> 2026-07-02T01:13:43Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs95v793gca4kxqq7083uxnjfv68cldr2u0hwe4urkz7n7utyspetgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q6rpl2u In 5 years, nobody will give a shit about your pangram score.<br/><br/>AI detectors are a transitional species.<br/><br/>Useful for a tiny window, worshipped by hall monitors, and inevitably going extinct.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/in-5-years-nobody-will-give-a-damn">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/in-5-years-nobody-will-give-a-damn</a> 2026-06-29T01:45:45Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs99pst7dsuw8eyv2ls26t4cgvulsyev2hmpnccaklf2hlnv2ar9fgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qrrq8u7 It’s far better to be uninformed than to be informed by TikTok. 2026-06-29T00:17:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2h5jgd9u4k9fnd06gpelacs98hcgfnhj4fej5xn5zjhl8he6ea5qzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q6pv9es The single greatest thing I have ever done is not my agency. It’s not the blog. It’s not anything with my name printed on a spine in a bookshop.<br/><br/>It’s that I got sober.<br/><br/>And then I stayed sober. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/comparison-is-a-con?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/comparison-is-a-con?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true</a> 2026-06-20T13:42:59Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdej5grrfh2kt37tryguylg36f5uszh4pchmj8f2nt6mp5sg8ve2czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qhr5058 At various points in the past decade - a decade in which I lived through ignominious defeat, bottoming out, alcoholism and crushing depression - I assumed that because any move left felt humiliating, it meant I was finished.<br/><br/>All it meant is that the next move had a cost. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-fked">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-fked</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/765/297/542/263/298/original/cc5893917cb7fec4.png"> 2026-06-17T11:50:46Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsz2wdw3urellyfsqvpy8yuqxvmc58a54svpan5dqr5qum94hwqeaszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q8y3s95 Nothing is allowed to be small anymore. Nothing is allowed to be moderate, partial, ordinary, seasonal, boring, or just good enough.<br/><br/>And it’s driving us insane. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web</a> 2026-06-13T03:29:15Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9srl4vps7f5gcvryxleld6xecy8k9ga3ee4kn4nvhp2n0uk9835gzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q7r9843 “We plan to be here in 100 years” is a competitive advantage in a market full of fly-by-night companies looking for the exit.<br/><br/>But you don’t build a 100-year company by announcing one. <br/><br/>You build it by renewing a choice, every day, against every incentive telling you to cash out, bulk up, or drift. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.selfonomics.com/p/can-you-still-build-a-100-year-company">https://www.selfonomics.com/p/can-you-still-build-a-100-year-company</a> 2026-06-11T03:52:06Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs206ayjvu0ua0ajt93rec0ruk4u758e8tmvfczl38erls83237sggzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qek34ug Here’s my radical position:<br/><br/>Just be normal about shit.<br/><br/>That’s it. <br/><br/>Be normal, and opt out of the deranged belief that the only way to take something seriously is to take it to the most extreme possible conclusion. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st</a> 2026-06-10T06:08:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsztyaxa7lp9pkwsap7vheum7hlqj2hup887q73myq0996xmhczkxgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q7casm9 You can care about nutrition and still eat cake at a birthday party. <br/><br/>You can be disciplined and still be fun.<br/><br/>Don’t confuse self-improvement with self-surveillance. <br/><br/>Don’t confuse certainty with wisdom. <br/><br/>And don’t confuse being a dick with courage.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-normal-about-st</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/721/994/725/739/365/original/f31f14a517d7f296.jpeg"> 2026-06-09T20:18:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp72x9y4956ugmuh5t7al9f7py8nz90mr3kulk6kqrrrd6us2mjfszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q6pg3m6 The best software usually does fewer things than its competitors, which is deeply confusing to people who believe value is solely measured in sidebar items. 2026-06-09T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0hy638wr8kds2ppxpf6h4ylh2d7zvw3ws7nqkmtrq778mpalla5gzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qvlzkt6 Productivity culture is amazing because it takes the basic human desire to have a not shit day and turns it into a 14-step content funnel. 2026-06-08T23:07:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs832cfwzw3pgqsww7clrtrsqyxf3yjwh79dpt6rq6y7gmzuwrm0mczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qc3xx6l A funny thing about task management apps is that eventually the main task becomes managing the task management app. 2026-06-08T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspuxea083fjfm2j9ghek7qtlumadm83ysg7fnuqmgjsy863js8reqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qh6fyeg The honest version of &#34;we&#39;re rethinking our pricing&#34; is &#34;we&#39;ve decided to charge more.&#34;<br/><br/>Just say the honest version. 2026-06-07T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsr4eu4nptaladylzyey5wd58d3r4g292mmcvc2exd97fxqhpvgztgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qcvfrt7 The fastest way to ruin a good product is to start listening to the loudest customer 2026-06-06T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0575l3hu67lsmcf4lxrp69taujp964mjumw3fvehj8v3r9pqhtsszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qekg82z Half of good writing is deleting the thing you were proud of yesterday. 2026-06-05T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8t7vf0js8zayx300mqk3azmpx2zpc8php3f2y9caw7ug9d8mlekgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qtl4v4v “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”<br/><br/>The most dangerous strategic failure is loyalty to a plan built for conditions that no longer exist. <br/><br/>Institutions might call it consistency. <br/><br/>Reality calls it drift. <br/><br/>And reality is unforgiving.<br/><br/><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thedailygeneral/p/against-the-quiet-past?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true">https://open.substack.com/pub/thedailygeneral/p/against-the-quiet-past?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/688/225/571/293/725/original/f719e0dcddc6b891.png"> 2026-06-03T21:10:21Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdejn7sd4mdm8ywrwr4zzykeavluusqnz4ad960xdrldkergh3m7szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qkwd05e The 7 golden rules of not being a dick on the internet<br/><br/>1. No quote dunking. If you disagree with someone, reply to them directly. Broadcasting their post to your audience with a snide caption turns a disagreement into a pile-on. Which is the entire point, I know. But we&#39;re better than that, right?<br/><br/>...right? 2026-06-03T08:13:34Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxdcnnzu5auzyeath3wfc874erfphmvmdn9qa0zcp59fdlvktnelqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qgfqt64 Cheap to make means cheap to abandon. Half the things being shipped right now won&#39;t exist by Christmas (generous) and everyone already knows it. 2026-06-03T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrwqs6hef8x5ktu8jfsa57gs3rnjj6u6mjyy9d5ml9d4hmqjzd6qczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qneghum We built a civilization where people need a productivity system to remember to drink water. Seems optimal. 2026-06-02T05:35:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxpdyu8nnupe76y80mp8xnulmq649yz9f0ypl6fyyel6zxgmr097szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qtwkze0 Being able to pay Google to show up above your competitor when someone searches specifically for your competitor is honestly one of the scummiest little growth-hacker products big tech ever cooked up.<br/><br/>“Did you mean the company you deliberately did not search for?”<br/><br/>No. <br/><br/>No, we did not. 2026-06-02T00:44:08Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsznyz3xw3cm5czgg0ygq3zanvk8rjp3e92gsl7uchaw74qyqkfxeqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q9rql8e Most &#34;productivity&#34; is just moving the bottleneck somewhere you can&#39;t see it yet. 2026-06-01T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyyx9zhhukeljtnfrnkygvl5gdu7udk2fg776y3je25dzvf3smr6szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qt4fw6e The strength of your conviction tells you nothing about whether you&#39;re right. <br/><br/>It tells you about your appetite.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/be-thou-not-pilled/">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/be-thou-not-pilled/</a> 2026-05-31T23:23:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs8lfatjsywacaucmj8dk5sxpdpvy3gstvyxcdvr52fs8j3de82qvczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qlc4up9 The funniest LLM-writing quirk is founders stuffing “quietly” into every launch.<br/><br/>“We’re quietly building…”<br/>“We quietly shipped…”<br/>“We’re quietly changing…”<br/><br/>Mate, it’s fucking marketing. If you&#39;re being quiet about it, have you considered that you might be doing it wrong 2026-05-30T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyz8lj0fc0mf8n5kw2jfza2ukr4tk9duwv6fw85te0gg7pnel9lfczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qa9jckf The Costco theory of the internet:<br/><br/>People are tired of infinite choice.<br/><br/>They want fewer decisions, higher floors, lower bullshit, clearer standards, and someone competent enough to throw the garbage out before they arrive... <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-costco-theory-of-the-internet/">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-costco-theory-of-the-internet/</a> 2026-05-28T01:31:23Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyv8raz35za9qf9qjszgysyk8u0euk93e070dvtmszjjkzas049xgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q4we6ky One day, you’ll thank yourself for starting the thing that scares you now. <br/><br/>Source: my 7 years of sobriety etc. 2026-05-27T23:07:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs92g6j3w4uhnkhxzcn2zy72ne4xt4t2g75jhd484wm2apq27sgzmgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qcn8khw The medieval calendar had something like 80 to 100 feast days a year when work simply stopped. We engineered ourselves out of every one of them. I’m given to understand this is progress. 2026-05-27T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxqcpeyx6nprwczcgymeu7t8cg5g6qxlzwnccl5szqmvqrs0g2dkszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qfy9n4j Waiting is how the gatekeepers borrow your entire life.<br/><br/>Permissionless is free. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.thisisstudioself.com/permissionless">https://www.thisisstudioself.com/permissionless</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/643/669/480/273/578/original/d742ef0f5d819189.png"> 2026-05-27T00:19:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstv79wg3jtn4q62yuyx7g2mfkhcthef3kn0yhpe2r2w7yreyxqfgczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qvgp4cr Announcement: unlike the rest of you mindless peasants, I do not enjoy current popular thing. In fact, I would go so far as to say that popular thing sucks and is derivative of obscure thing. This proves I have superior taste, a richer inner life, and at least three undeclared intellectual gifts. 2026-05-26T21:28:30Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2qgh0nvdktzkgvje6xytp8dvvm6qmqz8rtyy6sw6j9acaeff6ceczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qahufex How much of the self-improvement industry is a competent adult paying a stranger for permission they could grant themselves at any time, for free? 2026-05-26T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyv0k2rp8ewculrpsrjclyrc8teh3kywhxyrw75gy422cwtqlfddczyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qu4zqss There are two kinds of productivity systems.<br/><br/>The first makes you feel like a more sophisticated person than you are.<br/><br/>The second actually helps you do the work.<br/><br/>We keep building the first because the second leaves us alone with the rather terrifying idea that it&#39;s actually up to us...<br/><br/><a href="https://www.selfonomics.com/p/how-i-run-a-solo-6-figure-agency">https://www.selfonomics.com/p/how-i-run-a-solo-6-figure-agency</a> 2026-05-26T00:15:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdmz7mmnxewx972avzjgnv893h0ez7u22sgtu70pvjdjfcqz4cj5szyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qq5t5u6 The danger of modern work is that you can spend the whole day improving the system and never touch a single task 2026-05-26T00:07:36Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsff8wgekwlld45dhrgfd7xqqndnwx6lr7wauc9x30ry87ke70lslqzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qcwyrxg In 1654 Pascal wrote that all of humanity’s troubles come from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone. He died before push notifications, which feels like the universe granting a mercy… 2026-05-25T23:07:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg084q40kyqqsa5c3pywzjpcv3el6v4sr09xa3w725j4awlptwcaszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8q6lm95a Attention is the only currency that prints itself, and we keep setting it on fire to watch other people’s AI-generated vacation reels 2026-05-24T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqspj2ez0zc5r3a9hp6hcrzg0u8ctp204wjfxn7l8vaq29rp67pmhvgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qvnmfp3 “Hustle” and “balance” are the same product sold to two audiences who both feel guilty. 2026-05-23T23:07:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgz3pgwvl7hjz4862xwl55e7mjraxkmqmqcrdaav5ecrq45lr5umszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qxcxurf Half the internet is people optimizing routines they don’t like for a life they’ve never once paused to confirm they want. <br/><br/>The dashboard is gorgeous though. 2026-05-23T04:41:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvnvhl5jxq4rcg9fj28fvqjqzkxgtgmp2ff9trty60acn6fdnlc3czyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qkxqkxn Monks worked out around the year 540 that the trick to a productive life was to make almost every hour boringly identical. We rediscover this every few years, call it a “system,” and sell a course. 2026-05-22T04:41:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqnrl3n3fezsfldfswn8srgus6ztfm8jk07gtu6kt6slgc06svhjszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qdna8x5 Launching The Daily General - one quote, one insight, one strategic edge every day.<br/><br/>First post: Helmuth von Moltke’s most misquoted line.<br/><br/>“No plan survives contact with the enemy” doesn’t mean “don’t plan.”<br/><br/>It means plan obsessively, then adapt instantly. <br/><br/><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/thedailygeneral/p/moltkes-most-misquoted-line?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true">https://open.substack.com/pub/thedailygeneral/p/moltkes-most-misquoted-line?r=53ll86&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</a><br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/616/234/276/186/402/original/795104858f84d916.jpeg"> 2026-05-22T04:02:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstfsrs63638vtwmldvkyw08zltzz2m8x9hhglgalh0hn8qn35aqmszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qxuj6xa Every empire collapsed the same way:<br/><br/>Comfort replaced discipline.<br/>Entertainment replaced purpose.<br/>Short-term thinking replaced long-term vision.<br/><br/>Rome wasn’t destroyed in a day…. 2026-05-21T23:07:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsyd9xd23jatwy2n5z58tmec6qh9vrrtnlxtx4gez3lth6et5qkhmszyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qy83ql3 The internet is millions of people scrolling themselves into a crisis and then replying to each other from inside an anxiety spiral where they interpret everything as an attack, and we get the discourse we get. 2026-05-21T23:06:01Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxcmefye6azjdp98t8ewvflh3uwdnvxnx8a2y2xuyl4lxyr0nvssgzyrdxyjuku3cfr4q2ymkgdr2zvag39yj6l7tempcsyn6nsf88xsw8qjtjdtc &#34;Greatness&#34; is not a personality trait.<br/><br/>It&#39;s closer to accumulated evidence. <br/><br/><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/nobody-is-destined-for-greatness/">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/nobody-is-destined-for-greatness/</a> 2026-05-21T01:34:51Z