Congratulations on Your Unprecedented Crisis

Photo by The New York Public Library 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."The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin." — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.In 1348, a Florentine notary named Gabriele de’ Mussis wrote that the world had essentially come to an end, and the apocalypse was very much nigh. The Black Death had just killed perhaps a third of Europe’s population within three years, and God, he insisted, had withdrawn his mercy. He was convinced the devastation was without…