The tech industry has produced more men who describe themselves as “funny” than any other industry in human history and I think we need to investigate this.
06.03.2026 23:32
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The tech industry has produced more men who describe themselves as “funny” than any other industry in human history and I think we need to investigate this.
I'm kidding.
They never wait for you to finish.
The worst person at every dinner party is the one who waits for you to finish a story and then says "that reminds me of a podcast I listened to" and then tells you the entire podcast.
Every Australian knows the rule: if a tradie says "she'll be right" it means one of two things. Either everything is genuinely fine, or your house is about to fall down and he's already in his ute driving away. There is no middle ground.
Nobody on LinkedIn has ever had a bad day. Every setback is a "growth opportunity." Every firing is a "new chapter." Every complete professional disaster is framed as "excited to announce." These people would describe the Titanic as "a bold pivot to submarine operations."
I have a theory that the entire self-improvement industry is powered by people who buy a journal on January 2nd, write in it for 11 days, and then buy a different journal in March because maybe the problem was the journal and if journal sales ever drop the Course Creatorrs should panic
"Facts don't care about your feelings" has apparently mutated into "if I'm hurting your feelings I must be stating a fact" which is a logical fallacy because it's entirely possible to be a fucking arsehole and be wrong at the same time. The correlation is probably positive.
Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off...
www.joanwestenberg.com/everyone-in...
Nothing in the history of the universe, in the millions of years that life has persisted, in the thousands of years since the birth of civilisation, in the decades since your birth, has ever mattered less than getting your emails to inbox zero
My pitch for a movie: p-Hackers.
A sequel to the beloved 1995 classic starring Jonny Lee Miller as Professor Dade Murphy who has moved into academia and must prove that a large and popular data set was manipulated into proving statistical significance where there was in fact none.
4/5 stars (?)
Australia's entire cultural identity is pretending we don't care about things while caring so intensely about those things that we will fistfight a stranger over whether a parma should have ham or bacon on it
There is a specific kind of hell reserved for people who reply "sounds like you need to travel more" to every single problem. My dishwasher is broken, Sasha. Bali is not going to fix the dishwasher.
You people have no idea how close I am to belting out “One Day More” at any given moment
The guy who says "I just speak my mind" has never once considered that his mind might benefit from an editor. Or a fact-checker. Or a moment of silence. Just one. A single moment of not speaking his mind. As a treat.
The confidence of a man who has watched one documentary on the YouTubes and now opens every conversation with "well actually" is a force of nature that science cannot explain and god cannot contain
If your whole personality is your diet I need you to know that nobody at this dinner table cares nobody gives a shit and the silence after you explained seed oils was not "people processing new information" it was "people deciding whether to invite you next time"
I've been working on something...
Excited to be collaborating with @discourse.org (the folks powering my own forum) on a brand new interview series talking with some of the leading experts on building a community and a better internet in 2026.
More soon.
Thank you!
This is fake.
I have yet to see a single OpenClaw "Agentic" vibe coded dashboard // swarm // setup that couldn't have been achieved with Apple Reminders and Claude Code. It doesn't exist. Some people will re-invent 2+2 for clout.
Things3 would be a near perfect productivity tool if it had the ability to save images to tasks.
Every group chat has one person who responds to everything with a single emoji and contributes nothing else and honestly they might be the most well-adjusted person in the thread (it's not me)
What matters is how much unnecessary suffering we allow between here and there, and whether the new normal we settle into is one worth living in.
www.joanwestenberg.com/a-soft-land...
The most unhinged thing about modern life is that we've normalised paying $200 a month for the gym and $300 a month for wellness "supplements" but if someone charges $5 for a newsletter they wrote with their actual brain people act like they've been mugged at knifepoint
A user seeks advice on successful strategies in Polymarket trading, expressing frustration over recent losses and a need for income.
A discussion on cryptocurrency claims, emphasizing the importance of substantiating information found in online posts.
Many such cases
"I don't have time to read" says the absolute character who spent 4 hours last night watching a stranger rank every fast food burger on YouTube
The GTM Engineering Playbook
(How to build the machine that builds the pipeline)
www.selfonomics.com/p/the-gtm-e...
If you prioritise "sign up" over "login" on your landing page to the point that existing users have to search for the button, you are holding your existing users in contempt. And you're an arsehole to boot.
Every suburb in Australia has a bloke who's been "nearly finished" renovating his bathroom for 4 years. The tiles are in. The grout is not. He has opinions about grout. He will share them. You didn't ask. He doesn't care. The grout is coming and so is the monologue.
The doomers and the accelerationists share a singular trait: they've both decided the future is already determined and that human agency is irrelevant to whatever happens next.
www.joanwestenberg.com/a-soft-land...