JA Westenberg, an essayist and creator of Kerouac, Post Through It, Distributism.ai, Laterware, and Studio Self, outlines new rules of digital etiquette in an essay titled 'Neo-Etiquette Basics: The N…
JA Westenberg argues that creators who outsource their initial creative spark to AI tools like Grok or ChatGPT risk losing their own identity, emphasizing that a self is defined by what one chooses to…
JA Westenberg, an essayist and creator of tools like Kerouac and Distributism.ai, outlines five rules for building a practical 'Second Brain' knowledge archive, emphasizing manual curation over automa…
JA Westenberg argues that in the age of AI, 500-word posts outperform 5,000-word essays, as content creation trends toward a factory model and readers' attention spans shrink. Westenberg, who built Ke…
JA Westenberg argues that the trend of speed-reading and using AI summarization tools to accumulate book counts is worthless, citing John Locke's 1706 quote that thinking makes what we read ours. West…
Substack has partnered with AI-detection tool Pangram to let users check posts, comments and notes for AI-generated content, a move that the author argues is futile because AI detectors are unreliable…
US AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic are condemning distillation by open-source and Chinese rivals as theft, yet they built their own models on the entire corpus of human knowledge without creator con…
The 4-Hour Workweek model of passive income is obsolete in the AI era, argues writer JA Westenberg, because AI has automated the arbitrage tactics—virtual assistant work, niche info products, dropship…
The 'permanent underclass' narrative driven by AI maximalists is a myth rooted in anxiety and overexposure to AI developments, not a realistic prediction, argues writer JA Westenberg. Westenberg, auth…
Humans do not want infinite content but common ground, argues writer JA Westenberg in a video essay. Westenberg introduces the "campfire law," stating that the value of culture scales with the number …