JA Westenberg

The Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: 1. Selection Bias 2. Audience Capture 3. The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect 4. Thinking you’re immune to the first three…

After years of fucking around, compromising and second guessing, I have settled on 3 principles when it comes to my blog: 1. No analytics beyond whatever is baked into Ghost 2. No sponsorships and no advertising, not now, not ever 3. I will never charge more than $2.50 a month for membership and I will never raise my prices

Looking at you Thomas

The most successful grift of the modern era was convincing the smartest people in the world that 'changing the world' means optimizing the click-through rate on ads for mattresses that ship in a box

Grounded intellectual work, when it happens, if it ever happens again, is uncomfortable. It tells you things you don't want to hear, makes arguments that threaten positions you hold, points out problems you'd rather not see. The public intellectuals of the past, at their best, did this. Our current crop // slop does the opposite.

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Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation

Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)  The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest explora...