Notices by JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)

The average knowledge worker maintains accounts across system after system, switching between applications hundreds of times per day. And they produce, in aggregate, a staggering amount of coordinated and collaborative activity that never actually becomes anything resembling ~output.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/

Every bank is like “we’re more than just a bank” and all anyone wants is for them to shut the fuck up and be a bank

The Culture War is just two groups of people agreeing to hallucinate various demons so they can feel brave for fighting them

SYSTEM UPDATE: The "Marketplace of Ideas" has been replaced with a "High-Frequency Trading Bot for Status Signals."

Please note: Nuance has been deprecated. If you attempt to use it, your account will be flagged for "Low-Resolution Thinking."

New life hack: if you get asked "where were you last night" just say "I'm compacting our conversation so we can keep chatting" it'll give you like 5 minutes of stall time easy

AI doomers and AI accelerationists have more in common with each other than with normal people who simply do not think about AI that much. The disagreement is coming from inside the church

I refuse to compromise my principles*

* for anything less than $1m after that it’s fair game

its wild that "treat people with basic dignity" became a radical political position. i remember when it was just called "not being a dick." we used to have that

The future is already evenly distributed. It’s just not here yet.

Four hundred years ago, the people Andreessen imagines were blissfully unselfconscious were reading Augustine and Montaigne and arguing about Stoic philosophy. They were writing diaries and letters that examined their own motives with considerable care. They were not, in fact, just moving forward without asking where they were going.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-introspection/

Calling X “the everything app” when it can’t handle light / dark mode toggles outside the system settings is a special, special kind of delusion

raise two million. burn it. pivot. raise eight million. burn it. pivot. add AI. raise twenty million. burn it. rebrand. run out. acquihire. linkedin post. 200 likes. raise two million. burn it. pivot. raise eight million. burn it. pivot. add AI. raise twenty million. burn it. rebrand. run out. acquihire. linkedin post. 300 likes. raise two million. burn it. pivot -

sam altman has never once said anything that wasn’t already on a motivational poster in a dentist’s waiting room

Conservatives built an economy that requires two incomes to do what one did and then blamed women for going to work

Gluttony became “eating seed oils.”

Sloth became “suboptimal sleep hygiene.”

Penance became “cold plunges.”

Grace became “social media engagement.”

The religious architecture survived.

Only the theology changed.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-optimized-self-and-the-life-that-got-away/

we have made it to the point where publicly funding cancer research is a radical position and I would like to get off

you dont HAVE to have an 18 step morning routine. you could simply. wake up. and exist for a while. this is legal

I am so tired of being right about things I didn’t want to be right about

the housing market isn't actually broken. it is working exactly as designed by the people who own the houses.

It was the fuck around of times, it was the find out of times