JA Westenberg

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"I shit you not" is my all time favorite rhetorical device.

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At some point the left need to admit this whole "waiting for a savior" thing isn't a strategy. It's cope.

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A JOURNEY I NEVER EXPECTED WHEN I SIGNED UP TO POST ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

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We’re living through what feels like a Protestant Reformation of social media. Each new platform — Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky, Post — is its own denomination, complete with distinct status games and hierarchies. You might be a cardinal on Mastodon and a peasant on Threads. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-cathedral-of-the-blue-bird/

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I shit you not, it’s “going for a walk”

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You can be enlightened, stoic and at peace and still tell people to fuck off when they need to fuck off. It’s called balance.

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In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, fracturing the unified Catholic hierarchy that had dominated European spiritual and social life for centuries. In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and we're still dealing with the aftermath. 🧵

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Man I’ve seen some good bands this year. The Gaslight Anthem, Social Distortion, Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, Bad Religion etc. good year for shows.

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Thanks to starter packs, the top accounts on bluesky are just the top progressive accounts from Twitter which is fantastic for them and absolutely shit for anyone trying to build from scratch who wasn’t a Twitter celebrity in 2018. I don’t think Warpcast has this problem, partly because people aren’t moving here specifically trying to recreate Twitter - which is exactly what bluesky users are attempting to do.

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My daily: 30 minutes running 10 minutes meditation 2 hours deep work 16+ hours of anxiously hiding under my desk shaking uncontrollably 10 mins of yoga

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The best books I read this year in no particular order. - The Pathless Path - November 1942 - The Guns of August - Napoleon: Decline and Fall of an Empire, 1811-1821 - Blücher, scourge of Napoleon - Clausewitz: His Life and Work - Hitler Vol 1-2 by Ullrich - 8 Days in May also by Ullrich

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Elite education looks the same as housing in 2007 — a market propped up by cheap debt, artificial scarcity, and mass delusion about underlying value. But we’re not looking at one bubble — it’s a triple threat. A wealth bubble, a debt bubble, and a cultural bubble all reinforcing each other. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-elite-education-is-the-next-ponzi-scheme-to-collapse/

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There’s a lot of long and detailed lists of end-of-year questions going around for you to ask yourself. Get some insight and so on. I keep coming back to the only question that matters. Frasier, season 1, episode 24. “Are you happy?”

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December is the month where The Gym People post “finish strong,” and I respond by finishing an entire cheesecake in one sitting. The universe craves balance.

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A regular reminder that I am a huge fan of the POSSE method and you can find me on most platforms! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/joanwestenberg.com

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There's something deeply unsettling about the Fermi Paradox. It’s not just the old “where is everyone?” line—no, the real joke is how every single fix to the Fermi Paradox just spawns three more bizarre cosmic conundrums. You tug at one thread of the universe’s sweater and the whole thing unravels into a pile of tangled string and incomprehensible entropy. https://theexpeditionist.substack.com/p/the-fermi-paradox-is-fractal

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Study MaxonBollocks One of the first generative AI art collections on ethereum back in the day.

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We’ve turned ‘networking’ into digital hoarding—collecting connections that mean nothing. But social capital isn’t financial capital—it doesn’t scale infinitely. Trying to maintain too many connections dilutes value. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-your-social-capital-is-probably-worthless/

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I sat down with a founder on Warpcast to give some advice on how to hire marketers. For context, I don’t do marketing anymore, but I’ve been the CMO for some startups, ran an agency etc. and I’ve hired several teams. I wrote down some notes. might be useful for founders hiring their first marketing roles:

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You are not a storm-tossed ship, helplessly drifting on the waves of circumstance. You are the ocean itself, with depths of strength and resilience. And you are indirectly, personally responsible for the sinking of the Titanic. Nice work, asshole.

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