JA Westenberg

'Deep work’ is just ‘doing your job’ for people who’ve been on Slack so long they forgot what that felt like

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

80% of soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge never fired their weapons. 80% of your Slack workspace has never shipped anything. Marshall called it diffusion of responsibility. We seem committed to calling it "culture."

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

“im not political” i say while my every belief, purchase, and relationship is downstream of a worldview i absorbed passively and never examined. apolitical king

every wellness brand is selling me the lifestyle of a person who does not have to work for a living

Humans are spectacular at remembering disasters, passed down in every format from the written word to the oral tradition. We are (for obvious reasons) terrible at remembering the disasters that didn't happen...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/everything-is-awesome-why-im-an-optimist/

Every enterprise app feels like typing on a mushy membrane keyboard. You click a button and get a gentle animation, a swooshy transition, a soft bounce, and zero clear feedback that anything actually happened. The entire B2B software industry optimized for how tools feel during a fifteen-minute sales demo instead of how they perform across an eight-hour workday, and the result is professional software with the tactile precision of poking a marshmallow.