The 4-Hour-Work-Week is over

Photo by Mona Jain on Unsplash🍕 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 writing app | Post Through It, a solo microblogging tool | Distributism.ai, my MCP platform | Laterware, all the AI news you need | Studio Self, a thought leadership agency for founders x VCs.You can buy my book Permissionless here.I’ll be the first to say I was a fan of Tim Ferriss.Actually, scratch that. I am a fan.I have all of his books, from The 4-Hour Workweek to Tools of Titans.So what follows isn’t intended as a hit piece.But I have a growing sense that the core argument of The 4-Hour Workweek itself - the thesis that we should be creating loops of income-generating work that remove the human from the loop - is both obsolete and dangerous.The original book was the product of a specific moment: the explosion of online…