I am declaring discourse bankruptcy.
I no longer want to know what’s trending. I don’t want to know who said what absolute nonsense. I have no opinion on the viral fuckery of the day.
If anyone needs me I’ll be buying an actual newspaper.
PSA: that new productivity app didn’t change your life. You had already decided to change your life, which is why you downloaded a productivity app. The app was downstream of the decision. You’re crediting the speedometer for making the car go faster.
I started Westenberg because I think the biggest questions - how to live, how to work, how to focus - deserve straight answers.
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IF MAMDANI WINS NEW YORK THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WILL LITERALLY MELT, all the rats will form a council, pizza will be banned, & somehow this affects YOU personally in Oklahoma. im not crazy. You’re crazy
I don’t like asking for money and I never expect financial help from anyone but due to circumstances outside of my control I’m about €230,000,000 short this month to pay for this yacht any assistance would be amazing and I will absolutely pay it forward (I won’t)
Between the literal false idols, the dedication to lying and the exhortations to kill Venezuelan boating enthusiasts I’m starting to think evangelicals might not have read the 10 fucking commandments
Writing - every day - is practicing thinking clearly over and over until it becomes almost natural.
Worst case: you’ve lost twenty minutes a day that you’d likely have lost scrolling your phone anyway.
Best case, you’ve debugged your own cognition.
The greatest irony of progress is that the people most obsessed with building the future rarely know how to enjoy the present.
We’ve optimized for acceleration so hard that Be Here Now feels like a system error.
TIRED: giving poor people $200/month for food
WIRED: giving a corporation that makes $60 billion in profit a $15 billion tax break because they promised to create 41.3 jobs in Ohio
