Everything is Lonely

Photo by Noah Silliman 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 don’t want to spend the next 5 minutes of your time hand-wringing like a NYT pundit. I’m disinterested in passing judgment on my peers and the world around me for daring to commit the sin of scrolling through a phone; as far as I can tell, the tech influencers’ performative obsession with dumbphones has yet to save anyone from their isolation or rescue our social lives from their collective downward spiral.But at the same time - we can’t pretend it’s not happening. Can we?We can’t pretend that…