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A History of Optimism

Posted by joanwestenberg on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:52PM
from the historyofoptimism.com dept.

https://historyofoptimism.com/

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What to Do with Your Five-Year Window

Posted by joanwestenberg on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:39PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/westenberg/what-to-do-with-your-five-year-window-7a35373cc793

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SeditionDAW: A free, browser based Ableton alternative

Posted by joanwestenberg on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:52PM
from the seditiondaw.com dept.

https://seditiondaw.com/

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AI Org Maturity Scorer

Posted by joanwestenberg on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:56PM
from the aiorgmaturity.com dept.

https://aiorgmaturity.com/

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The Indie Hacker Economy Is a Pyramid Scheme

Posted by joanwestenberg on Sunday July 26, 2026 @08:31PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/westenberg/the-indie-hacker-economy-is-a-pyramid-scheme-d06cb5789648

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What happened to our climate extinction?

Posted by joanwestenberg on Thursday July 16, 2026 @01:18AM
from the cerebusthefirst.substack.com dept.

https://cerebusthefirst.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-our-climate-extinction

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Are my evals lying to me?

Posted by joanwestenberg on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @06:40PM
from the hoplabs.substack.com dept.

https://hoplabs.substack.com/p/are-my-evals-lying-to-me

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What It's Like to Use Discourse in Another Language

Posted by joanwestenberg on Monday May 04, 2026 @06:23PM
from the blog.discourse.org dept.

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/05/what-its-actually-like-to-use-discourse-in-another-language/

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Will No One Rid Me of These 3 Hour Podcasts?

Posted by joanwestenberg on Monday September 29, 2025 @02:30AM
from the theindex.media dept.

https://www.theindex.media/p/will-no-one-rid-me-of-these-3-hour-podcasts

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The West Wing and the Death of Belief

Posted by joanwestenberg on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @08:17PM
from the theindex.media dept.

https://www.theindex.media/p/the-west-wing-and-the-death-of-belief

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Aggregation Theory After Aggregation

Posted by joanwestenberg on Monday September 01, 2025 @10:07PM
from the theindex.media dept.

https://www.theindex.media/p/aggregation-theory-after-aggregation

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Product-Market Fit Is Retrospective Fiction

Posted by joanwestenberg on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @09:23PM
from the thebrokevc.com dept.

https://www.thebrokevc.com/p/product-market-fit-is-retrospective-fiction-7c36

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Architecture vs. Content

Posted by joanwestenberg on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:36PM
from the paragraph.com dept.

https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/architecture-vs-content

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Failure Modes of Traditional Media Distribution

Posted by joanwestenberg on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @08:56PM
from the paragraph.com dept.

https://paragraph.com/@signalvs/failure-modes-of-traditional-media-distribution

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Elon Musk and Donald Trump Have Declared War on Veterans

Posted by joanwestenberg on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:03PM
from the theindex.media dept.

https://www.theindex.media/elon-musk-and-donald-trump-have-declared-war-on-veterans/

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The Republican Party Is Dead

Posted by joanwestenberg on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:49AM
from the theindex.media dept.

https://www.theindex.media/the-republican-party-is-dead/

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The Cypherpunk Paradox: The More Bitcoin Wins, the More It Loses

Posted by joanwestenberg on Thursday February 06, 2025 @04:42AM
from the reasonprotocol.com dept.

https://www.reasonprotocol.com/the-cypherpunk-paradox-the-more-bitcoin-wins-the-more-it-loses/

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The Death of the Pitch

Posted by joanwestenberg on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:49PM
from the signalvs.com dept.

https://www.signalvs.com/the-death-of-the-pitch/

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The Digital Distributist Manifesto

Posted by joanwestenberg on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @05:10PM
from the manifesto.press dept.

https://manifesto.press/posts/14f0dbb7-b935-4ddd-85be-2a510d0c9b5c

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Stay Gold, America

Posted by joanwestenberg on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @02:45AM
from the blog.codinghorror.com dept.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/

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The Ego-Legacy Complex: On Ancient Monuments and Modern Malaise

Posted by joanwestenberg on Friday December 27, 2024 @05:06PM
from the joanwestenberg.com dept.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-ego-legacy-complex-on-ancient-monuments-and-modern-malaise/

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The in/Finite Game: Space Exploration as a Game with Imperfect Information

Posted by joanwestenberg on Saturday November 30, 2024 @08:29PM
from the theexpeditionist.substack.com dept.

https://theexpeditionist.substack.com/p/the-infinite-game

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Breaking down a NYT amplified right-wing hit job on Kamala Harris

Posted by joanwestenberg on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @12:45AM
from the joanwestenberg.com dept.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/nyts-latest-miss-the-harris-book-fake-controversy/

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Voltaire Was a Scammer

Posted by joanwestenberg on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:59PM
from the tinyspells.substack.com dept.

https://tinyspells.substack.com/p/voltaire-was-a-scammer

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Artificially intelligent: chatbots, grifters, and the new, new ignorance

Posted by joanwestenberg on Friday June 23, 2023 @03:07AM
from the theindex.media dept.

https://www.theindex.media/p/artificially-intelligent-chatbots

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ProductHunt has a spam problem. They're ignoring it

Posted by joanwestenberg on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:58PM
from the self-post dept.

I've been trying to bring this to the PH admin attention for months now. I’m seeing this happen more and more frequently. Clearly fake comments on product hunt launches. It’s becoming a major issue, because it means I’m no longer interested in reading community responses to products.Example: so many of the comments on this project are low effort fakes.https://www.producthunt.com/posts/shardible

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Agreeing to disagree is the death knell of our social system

Posted by joanwestenberg on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:38PM
from the joanwestenberg.medium.com dept.

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/agreeing-to-disagree-is-the-death-knell-of-our-social-system-8cb2fa6497be

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Non-Fungible McDonalds

Posted by joanwestenberg on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:52PM
from the latenightmcdonalds.com dept.

https://latenightmcdonalds.com

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