JA Westenberg

My working theory on why nobody's impressed by AI: Google and Siri spent a decade training the entire population that "AI assistant" means a thing that can't set a timer properly and confidently misunderstands your mom's name. Now the real thing shows up and everyone's pattern-matching to ten years of disappointment...

The most useful productivity system is subtraction.

Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.

If you have multiple interests, you don’t pick one. Pick one ~season. 90 days. One output. One audience. Then rotate.

Pay-once software users demanding constant updates is the equivalent of buying a book and getting mad the author won’t keep adding chapters.

PASSION RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME.

WHY DO WE EXIST.

Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know. Wisdom is what tells you not to install Clawdbot on your personal device and give it access to your banking details, even though you could become the next Tony Stark. Wisdom is not the same thing as intelligence.

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Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom

Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientific minds in human history, lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble of 1720. After initially making money ...

No not like that

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