The Art of Agency Laundering

🍕 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.Everyone has some version of the same trick. You don’t want to take responsibility for a Great and Terrible Thing - your choices, your decisions, taking a risk, playing it safe, etc.- and so you attempt to remove yourself from the causal chain. Best-case scenario, you flip a coin. Bad-case, you consult a psychic medium. Worst-case, of course, you hand it all off to a Board...Whatever you choose to do, the intention is the same: you are inserting an additional link in the causal chain, between you and the result; and you’re…