Neo-Etiquette Basics: The New Rules of Being Human

🍕 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 product, brand, and GTM lab.You can buy my book Permissionless here.“Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.”— Ralph Waldo EmersonThe point of having good manners isn’t to honor an arbitrary ritual; it’s to show a modicum of respect to the folks you come into contact with every day of your life. We are - as George Costanza would unhappily tell you - living in a society. No matter how much certain corners of the internet might complain about respectability politics and insist that they’re specially anointed creatures to whom social expectations cannot possibly apply, there is a basic level of decency that we…