A Mind That Stops Beginning Starts to Decay

Photo by vackground.com 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.Your creative process should never start with a machine. I don’t think that’s a difficult or controversial statement - but the human catalyst // spark is becoming a rare step in a workflow slowly going extinct. Our starting reflex now isn’t to sketch out an idea on a page; it’s to load up Grok, ChatGPT, etc and give it the barest bones of a concept, and accept whatever it generates to replace the blank page. I don’t purity test when it comes to AI. I draft both with it and without it, depending…