Epictetus Ran a Better Productivity System Than Any App You’ve Bought

Photo by Pontus Wellgraf 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.Productivity systems are mostly built around the same basic assumption: that you are an intellectual delinquent. Your productivity sucks because, really, you suck. If you’re drowning, it’s your fault and your fault alone. You are failing to track your work, manage your knowledge, and garden your ideas. It’s a human problem, and you’re the human, so it’s your f**king problem.The solution for almost every stack is to give you a better inbox and a smarter database, a richer capture system, and…