Avoidance Is a Short-Term Loan with Predatory Interest

🍕 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.Nothing we avoid ever actually goes away. You can duck and hide, you can run from it, you can lock it away in a box, but it’ll still grow roots.It’s a small task today (no matter how daunting), but it’s a soul-crushing source of anxiety tomorrow. It’s one shitty but fleeting moment today, but it’s a debilitating Achilles heel in a year, worse in two, worse in three…We hide from ourselves, too. It’s not just the things we do that define us; it’s the things we don’t get around to.They constitute the people we never quite become.Or…