Pop nutrition is just observational studies of people who lie about what they eat analyzed by people who really want butter to be evil

Sometimes caring means disappearing. Sometimes respect means silence. Sometimes love, at its most honest, means bowing out before the scene drags on too long. youtu.be/G6C1hrksSuA

You can predict 90% of someone’s opinions if you know: - Who they follow - Who they hate - Who they fear losing status with www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-illus...

Superforecasters are just people who memorized base rates and know when to say 28% instead of 30%

The real red pill is realizing that 80% of Twitter discourse is people pattern-matching to 'high status opinion in my tribe' and then confabulating reasons why

“Dropped out of Stanford to build a startup” Couldn’t commit to a 3-4 year degree? Can’t see it through? Think you’re too good to learn? Ok.

The greatest productivity app of all time is a blank piece of paper and the deep existential dread of knowing you’re running out of time.

Philosophers 300 years ago: "Is life inherently meaningful, or do we create meaning through action?" Philosophers now: "Use code MEANING for 20% off on Squarespace"

‘good design’ is a psyop by people who are terrified of seeming uncool. maybe the nothing phone is tacky as hell, maybe it tries too hard and that’s why it works. bring back weird gadgets. bring back fun.

Wild that we all agreed IQ tests are bullshit and then immediately invented 500 new ways to rank people that are somehow worse

If your only edge is effort, you're replaceable. There is always someone who can work longer. Someone younger, hungrier, more desperate. There is no long-term moat in exhaustion. And if you do somehow win that way, you might not like the prize. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/996-just-...

researcher: we gave people $1000/month and measured happiness me: and? researcher: they were happier me: surprised pikachu face

The only people working 996 are those with no other competitive edge. No skill, no creativity, no unique product, no mission. If all you have is grind, you might compete for a hot minute. But you’ll still lose. Even if you don’t burn out first.

every "life-changing" productivity system is just: - write things down - look at what you wrote - do those things we've reinvented the todo list 47 times

You don’t need to outwork *everyone.* You don’t need to outsmart *everyone.* You just need to be better than you were yesterday...

The internet makes you feel like you're always late. To trends. To skills. To opportunities. You're a wizard, dude. You arrive precisely when you mean to.

Own a smartphone? Congrats, you're carrying an infinite library, a global stage, and the ultimate startup toolkit in your pocket. And you're using it to comment "Hi Sweetheart" on AI models...

I've stopped asking, "what does the future hold?" I'm more likely to ask, "what can *I* hold, no matter the future?"

What nobody wants to hear: most people who achieve something worth talking about get there through years of sustained // boring, work. Simply put: they had both intractable patience and the determination to ignore distractions for a sustained period of time. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/there-is-...

PSA: Pointing out that something is a social construct has never once changed anyone's behavior about that thing

it just turns out that when you give everyone a button that says “show me more stuff like this” they keep pressing it until they end up somewhere insane. This is called “progress”

Punk’s not dead it’s just raising a bridging round

The lifecycle of every online community is: good discussion, growth, eternal arguments about moderation policy, heat death​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

If your explanation for why society is broken relies on everyone suddenly becoming more evil in 2016 you should probably workshop that theory a bit more

Everyone’s getting radicalised I’m just trying to be rad

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

You can tell how broken the discourse is by counting how many obvious truths you’re not allowed to mention without immediately adding seventeen caveats

I've come to think that our capacity for self-forgetting is central to what makes us human. We're at our best when we're not thinking about ourselves at all. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/forget-fi...

Every online argument: Person A: 'X is good' Person B: 'So you're saying we should do X to an insane degree with no nuance?' Person A: 'I didn't - ' Person B: 'DESTROYED by FACTS'

IF YOU CANT HANDLE ME EMBEZZLING $12M FROM MY MENTAL HEALTH APP THEN YOU DONT DESERVE ME WHEN IM RINGING THE NASDAQ BELL. IM BUILDING IN PUBLIC

My roommate Malcolm Gladwell left a Post-it on the fridge that just says “Blink.” I haven’t eaten in 2 days. I’m scared to open it.

No i will NOT explain what my company does. No there is NO product. Yes we spent the entire seed round on a rebrand. The logo is lowercase now. We’re worth $400M. I legally own your mum.

I have officially given up on future proofing my life. New on YouTube: why trying to predict AI is preventing us from doing what matters... youtu.be/iZW_E5Se_rw

my credit score is low because the system is rigged against people like me (people who have made countless catastrophic financial decisions and learned nothing from any of them)

read a book you low agency fucks. specifically the art of war which I have not read but assume supports my position

IF YOU THINK IM WEIRD FOR HAVING 47 JARS OF PICKLES IN MY APARTMENT THEN QUITE FRANKLY YOU ARE NOT READY FOR WHATS COMING

blocking everyone who said my “pyramid scheme” was “illegal” and or “gay”. you wouldnt recognize disruption if it came to your house at 3am with a duffel bag and a proposition

DEBATE MODERATOR: you cant keep saying “wrong” when we ask you to state your name ME: leans into microphone Wrong. MODERATOR: please ME: Wrong. MY MOM FROM AUDIENCE: you’re doing great honey

AI can write. AI can create videos. but can AI disappoint everyone who ever believed in it while also being somehow smug about it. no. thats the human spirit Aka my competitive advantage

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The future isn’t exhausting because of how fast it moves. It’s exhausting because nothing ever stays still long enough to master it. www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-exhau...

everyone wants to talk about “boundaries” until you set one

TO WHAT END SIR

the only thing standing between me and complete success is every single choice I have ever made

Sauron wasn't expecting the one ring's will to dominate drama

Nothing make dudes on the internet more insane with rage than Women Liking Stuff

we're in a "golden age of innovation" but i still cant get my bluetooth headphones to connect without performing a ancient summoning ritual. explain that monsieur elon

just found out my enemies are also eating food and drinking water to survive. feeling betrayed by the whole system right now

dear amazon, James Bond without guns is just a British man in a suit who enjoys travel. I believe thats called "having a passport"

my uncle gary has been burping since 1987 and we dont call scientists about it SNOWFLAKES