Burn the Origin Story They Gave You

🍕 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 don’t know who first told you that you couldn’t. It might have been your parents, a teacher, a well-meaning family friend. But somewhere in your origin story, somebody looked at you and decided you were too weak or too small, and told you the dreams in your head were outside your reach.They told you that you weren’t meant to be a dancer, or an artist, a programmer, a games developer, a performer, a musician, an entrepreneur.They said it because they looked at you and saw themselves: who they’d wanted to be, who they became…