Joan Westenberg
@joanwestenberg
I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Skeptical tech optimist, EA aligned, building internet businesses.
Joan Westenberg
@joanwestenberg
I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Skeptical tech optimist, EA aligned, building internet businesses.

Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
“Nothing was useful which was not honest.” – Benjamin Franklin
Brilliant schemes of aggression, if flawed, entail attrition as if by an inexorable reactive law.