JA Westenberg

@daojoan.eth

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If your marketing says you are “not just another crypto token” I can safely assume you are just another crypto token and your copy is written by chatGPT’s free plan

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i was born in the wrong generation. i should’ve been born in the 1400s, when life expectancy was 27 and i could’ve just died from eating bread wrong instead of having to pay taxes.

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working on merch for my blog

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A seemingly contradictory observation: Space exploration is simultaneously one of humanity's most optimistic and most pessimistic endeavors. Optimistic because it represents our boldest dreams of expansion and discovery; pessimistic because it implicitly acknowledges that we might need a backup plan for Earth. https://theexpeditionist.substack.com/p/optimism-in-the-vacuum

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Somethings different about my laptop and I can’t figure it out

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We’re not preparing students for the future. we’re preparing them for jobs that won’t exist. And everyone knows it.

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We’re living in a world that’s increasingly optimized for quarterly reports and daily news cycles. But the really big wins — the ones that reshape civilization — almost always come from thinking in decades or centuries. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-art-of-long-term-thinking-in-a-short-sighted-world/

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We're locked in an increasingly tense game of Resource Monopoly on Earth while an abundance of materials floats over our heads. The question isn't whether we'll start mining asteroids – it's whether we'll do it before or after the next resource war. https://open.substack.com/pub/theexpeditionist/p/asteroids-not-earth?r=3a23uv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Space magnifies everything—distance, risk, survival. It forces us to rebuild governance from first principles. Could solving this teach us to govern Earth better? https://theexpeditionist.substack.com/p/why-earths-systems-will-kill-us-in

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We're stuck in an absurd cycle, where the only thing more exhausting than the work is pretending to do the work. Every week begins with the best of intentions and ends with you staring at a dozen half-finished tasks scattered across a dozen different platforms, wondering what the hell you actually accomplished. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/modern-work-fucking-sucks/

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For some people political alignment is a skill issue. This applies on both the left and the right.

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Modern Work ™️

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The Decline: Liberalism on the Ropes is now minting. I think it's the first (?) political book published on @zora Possibly first political book on @base “The Decline: Liberalism on the Ropes” by JA Westenberg is a penetrating analysis of liberalism’s unraveling in an era marked by crises and contradictions. It explores how the ideology that once promised progress and freedom has faltered under the weight of its own ideals, becoming performative and toothless in the face of mounting existential threats. From systemic inequality to climate inaction and the rise of authoritarian populism, Westenberg dissects the failures of institutions, the cynicism of discourse, and the disillusionment of the masses. This book asks hard questions about whether liberalism can adapt to survive or if it will fade into irrelevance, leaving its promises unfulfilled and a dangerous void in its wake.

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Easiest way to release a book as an NFT on base?

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The Expeditionist is a new Substack I launched last week. Partisan lines are being drawn around space tech because progressives are anti-Elon. That feels like a dangerous trend. I want to push back by writing thoughtfully and positively about the philosophy / ethics of space. https://theexpeditionist.substack.com

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The future has a way of making optimists look like realists in retrospect.

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There’s a common failure mode in thinking about space exploration where we get caught up in the engineering challenges—delta-v calculations, radiation shielding, life support systems—while missing the meta-level coordination problem. 🧵

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oh no, you called joe rogan “joe rogaine.” his testosterone just dropped by 300% and all the elk meat in his freezer turned into tofu. truly a devastating blow to the podcast industrial complex

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In traditional markets, we deal mostly with known unknowns: "I don't know if this company will meet its earnings projections." In memecoin trading, we deal primarily with unknown unknowns 🧵 https://x.com/daojoaneth/status/1862747324382159093?s=46

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They say the truth will set you free, but all it’s ever done for me is get me in trouble and occasionally banned from social gatherings

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