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🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a...
Each year, I post a reader survey. This helps me learn who’s reading this blog. But it also helps me try to replicate psych findings and investigate interesting hypotheses. Some highlights from past years include birth order effects,...
A useful bonus feature of handwritten-publish is that if I use the built-intranscription and send the text with or instead of the handwriting image, that'swhat gets published. Effectively, I'm posting to micro-blog directly from my...
We lost the best the human. What shall we do now? #dollyparton #dolly
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
Continuation-passing style (CPS) is a programming style in which you pass one or more first-class procedures (continuations) to a function as arguments. When the function is done, it doesn't return a value in the usual way, but delegates...
I know, I know, another photo of the Castle?! That's just how it goes on a Disneyland photo blog. There will be more. But at least this one is pretty, with the colors popping in the afternoon sun. The blue sky helps; the slide is...
Intro: too many projects, not enough timeAt some point in Column Tax's lifecycle, we grew such that as co-founder & CTO (and responsible for Engineering, Product, and Design) I wasn't personally leading every project. At that point, I...
That's right, America's symbol of freedom, the wild Mustangs of the West; get 'em by the thousands for pennies on the dollar- perfect for someone's dining room table, all thanks to... Great American Orange Man!
More from the same diary study. When the researchers looked at what people actually completed, unplanned tasks won. Tasks that showed up during the day were rated as more urgent and more important than the ones people had planned in...
Point and click adventure Theropods had me at “dinosaurs”—of course I want to play an adventure game with dinosaurs—but I was also intrigued by its complete lack of not just general dialogue but also any and all text. I get a title logo...
My Arthur Allan, signed 3 West Nile St, a shop I remember but was mostly fishing tackle and air guns in the 70’s and 80’s. Resleeved but a super job and handles superbly. Delightful gun and still used regularly. Not a name I know but a...
Monday’s reading. Tuesday’s reading. Via RSS Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #178 by Thomas Klaffke (Aug 25, 2026) — only opened two articles from this and one was in the Atlantic so I closed it 😂 this newsletter might not be for me August 25, 2026 by...
one of these days, i got to realize that a) I am not the center of everyone's world (tragic, really), and b) most people are not malicious; they are either most likely caught up in their own lives, or just really fucking dumb