Westenberg.
Field Notes on Now.
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Communities are not fungible
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and
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The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.
Every week, thousands of founders open Canva or Google Slides or, God help them, PowerPoint, and begin the ritual. They agonize over fonts, nudge logos three pixels to the left
How to stop being boring
The most interesting people I know aren't trying to be interesting. Thank God. They're saying what they actually think and wearing what they actually like, pursuing
The Coherence Premium
I don't necessarily believe in second brains. The notion (pun-intended) that you can offload your thinking to a perfectly organized system of notes and links has always struck
Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays
We plan our lives like we're editing a movie trailer. The trip to Portugal, or the product launch, or the transformation photo at the gym. The big moment
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 and selling his shares, he
Claude Code Won't Fix Your Life
Claude Code can now read and write to local file systems. You can point it at your Obsidian vault and suddenly you have an AI that “knows” everything you’ve
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufactured
How to Debug Your Life
I. In 1947, Grace Hopper and her team at Harvard were working on the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator. The machine was massive, a deafening clatter of electromechanical relays, and
Failure vs. Success is the Wrong Frame.
How many novels exist only as "I'm still outlining"? How many startups live permanently in "stealth mode"? How many paintings never get painted because
A Metabolic Workspace
In 1895, a Belgian lawyer, bibliographer and information scientist named Paul Otlet started building what he would call the Mundaneum: a vast repository in Brussels containing over 12 million index
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War - By Jonathan Dimbleby
💡Grim but essential // corrective to the Western-centric view of WWII. Dimbleby argues persuasively that the war was won and lost on the Eastern Front in 1941, not on the beaches