The Case for Minimum Viable Faith

Photo by Faraaz Zuberi 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 have developed a personal cheat code for life that might sound ridiculous to you, and it might in fact be ridiculous; but in the face of my own doubt, my fears, the unpredictability of every single day of my life since 2020, and the shrouded future of AI, disruption, idiotic politicians, Netflix cancellations and badly thought-out software updates, it’s the only thing I’ve found that works:Faith as a survival strategy.Hope as discipline.Future orientation as leverage.IE: for good things to…