JA Westenberg

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You can write a perfect article. Check every source. Nail every fact. But if it doesn’t make the feed, it doesn’t make a dent. Distribution is reality now. https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/failure-modes-of-traditional-media-distribution

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There’s an entire economy based on you never choosing anything. Keep browsing. Keep scrolling. Keep adding to your cart. Keep thinking happiness is just one more option away. https://www.joanwestenberg.com/drowning-in-options-starving-for-purpose/

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People who say "I just speak my mind" rarely consider that their mind might benefit from an editor.

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Most note-taking systems are hoarders. Object Pages is a minimalist: one thought, one page, total clarity. The system is simple because life is complicated enough. https://objectpages.com/

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You spent 18 months perfecting your code. They spent 18 months perfecting their email list. Guess who’s winning? https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/distribution-eats-everything

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“Do food stamps make people fat?” No. But publishing lazy classist propaganda to flatter your rich readers definitely makes you a hack. https://www.theindex.media/a-war-on-welfare-wrapped-in-fatphobia/

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I've taken some time away to think about the agency I planned on building. And I've reached a place I'm excited about. Signalvs. Narrative architecture. Network mapping. Asymmetric distribution. Built for ideas that deserve to move. https://signalvs.com/

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The midterms are not a contest of ideas. They are a contest between democracy and permanent minority rule. The GOP isn’t trying to win the debate. They’re trying to rig the scoreboard — forever. https://www.theindex.media/the-midterms-are-coming-the-gop-is-going-to-cheat/

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The hack that actually works: care more than you need to, longer than you want to.

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The easiest person to fool with motivated reasoning is yourself. This is why smart people believe stupider things with greater conviction—they're better at constructing plausible justifications.

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There is no “right time.” There’s only now, plus courage.

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Quote cast with the first machine you wrote a line of code on

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Hope isn’t delusion. Hope is non-zero probability awareness. It’s what allows you to see a future worth compounding toward, even when today’s version looks like a local minimum.

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Intellectual monocultures function exactly like agricultural ones: impressive yields in the short term, catastrophic collapse in the long term. See: the New York Times.

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Instead of confronting fascism, Thomas Friedman invented a whole new political identity based on... squints at notes... Google's self-driving car subsidiary. You can't make this stuff up. And nor should you. My analysis of elite denial: https://www.theindex.media/no-tom-friedman-robotaxis-wont-save-democracy/

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I was a huge fan of being punched in the dick until I got punched in the dick, I now demand that you cease punching me in the dick

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If we approached climate policy with the same risk-mitigation framework we use for national defense, we’d have mobilized for a green transition decades ago. A 1% probability of foreign attack justifies trillions in spending, but a >90% probability of climate disaster doesn’t.

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Carbon offsets are the modern version of medieval indulgences: pay a fee to continue sinning without guilt.

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