Nobody Wants Your Newsletter. You Should Write it Anyway.

🍕 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’m broadly aware that the numbers aren’t great.Someone told me last week that 99% of newsletters fail in their first 90 days, and that feels directionally accurate.They’re easier to produce than podcasts (which have a famously high quit rate) but most still won’t make it past their first month, let alone their 10th issue.The ugliest read is this: there is no market, no niche, no audience, and no subculture, subcategory, or Substack community waiting for your hot take.Nobody asked you to write a newsletter; and as a baseline,…