In 1999: “Don’t meet strangers from the internet.” In 2025: “Get in the car with a stranger from the internet and live in their house.”

The myth: if you haven’t made it by 30, you’re finished. The truth: you still have decades to do your best work.

Westenberg.

Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

The Long Apprenticeship

The real productivity hack is accepting that most tasks aren't worth optimizing and just doing them badly

Many such cases (we just haven’t found them yet)

I don't network. I write. A thread 🧵 1/17

The real reason people hate self-checkout isn’t the loss of human contact it’s that you pay the same price but do more work, violating our intuitions about fair exchange. It’s like if restaurants charged full price but you had to bus your own table

The generation born between 1946 and 1964 achieved the greatest coup in financial history: they conceived and raised their own exit liquidity

How to actually get 8 hours of sleep: - Put your phone in another room at 9pm - That's it. That's the whole thread.

theory: 'Deep work' is just what we called normal cognitive function before we broke our brains with notification systems designed by teams of PhDs whose literal job is to make the casino irresistible

We’re living through personal agency hyperinflation. Every new app or AI copilot feels like printing fresh banknotes. At first, you feel richer. But when the power goes out, you realize the reserves of actual skill are gone.

Westenberg.

We've Hit Personal Agency Hyperfinflation

The Empire of Convenience