Odotan aina #westenberg in tekstejä, ja jo harkitsen maksullista (2,50 $ kuussa) tilausta. Tällä kertaa teksti on itsestä ja omasta kehosta projektina.

”The self that comes from years of successful optimization is “useful” and some might call it “finished.” But the self that is only discovered through years of purposeful uselessness is unfinished, and by that virtue, it is full of possibility and gifted with the unknown.
The gym won't give you that. Knowing your testosterone levels to two decimal places won't tell you a single damned thing about what you're supposed to do with your time on earth, which is, in the end, the only question worth spending your life on.”
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-optimized-self-and-the-life-that-got-away/

Niiiiin pidän tästä. Ajattelemisen aihetta antoi, taas, #Westenberg

”The barely tolerated Monday is a down payment on a life that never arrives, a perpetual advance payment for goods that don't ship.”

Työelämän (suunnilleen ihmisen ikävuodet 25-65) aikana ihminen elää yhteensä reilu 2.000 maanantaina. Ja 2.000 tiistaita. Ja… yhteensä runsaat 10.000 arkipäivää. Osa niistä on lomapäivä, jossakin työ- ja vapaapäivien suhde on 19:1, Suomessa aika paljon parempi. Niitä työmaanantaita - ja tiistaita ja… - kuitenkin on ihan riittävästi.

Minulla ne ovat vihdoin takanapäin. Pidinkö, nautinko niistä? Pitkään kyllä, jossakin vaiheessa en enää.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/your-life-is-the-sum-total-of-2-000-mondays/

𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘁 𝗼𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗮𝗮𝗿

Monique Westenberg is blij dat 2025 voorbij is. Het was voor de ex van André Hazes "geen fijn jaar", vertelt ze op Instagram.

https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5549825/monique-westenberg-hoopt-op-beter-jaar

#Monique #Westenberg #beterjaar

𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 𝗴𝗲𝘃𝗿𝗮𝗮𝗴𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲

Zondag was Monique Westenberg (47) te zien in het programma 'Het Waren 2 Fantastische Dagen', waarin ze samen met Leontine Ruiters (57) en Frank Masmeijer (63) openhartige gesprekken voerde. Op Instagram blikt ze terug op haar deelname aan het programma en laat ze weten gevraagd te zijn voor onder andere 'De...

https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment/artikel/5517411/monique-westenberg-blikt-terug-liefdevolle-uitzending

#Monique #Westenberg #Bachelorette

"Westenberg" is penned by the eponymous Joan Westenberg. She is also on Mastodon @Daojoan

Take a few minutes out of your day and have a read of "I Miss the Internet"

You'll be glad you did.

Source: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-miss-the-internet

#Westenberg #JoanWestenberg #Blog #Blogging

"Westenberg" is penned by the eponymous Joan Westenberg. She is also on Mastodon @Daojoan

Take a few minutes out of your day and have a read of "The Internet is Shrinking"

You'll be glad you did.

Source: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-internet-is-shrinking/

#Westenberg #JoanWestenberg #Blog #Blogging

A subscriber-only article by the wonderfully thought-provoking @joanwestenberg on the Westenberg Letter.

Content Saturation Has Inverted Cultural Memory

"We used to remember things because they were exceptional. Moments, dialogue, speeches, films and ideas etched themselves into culture by sheer force of quality. They were better-crafted. Better at sticking. Better at resonating.

But that was when culture moved slowly.

To be remembered, something had to stand out against silence.

Now it has to scream.

Content saturation has rewired the mechanics of cultural memory. When we’re faced with more stimuli than any brain has evolved to manage, our collective attention doesn’t coalesce around excellence.

It can’t.

There's too much.

So instead, it flocks to the repeatable, the clippable, the memetic. Cultural staying power has detached from quality and grafted itself onto transmissibility. If it can be misheard, clipped out of context, and reposted with rage emojis, it will be."

Westenberg never fails to impress with insight and challenging observations.

#Westenberg
#JoanWestenberg
#TheIndex

Joan #Westenberg in her new The Index news blog:

'Behind every handshake is a nation plotting its exit strategy from the American empire.

The #USA is not being courted—it's being managed.

The trust is gone.
It's gone in Brussels .....
It's gone in Tokyo, in Ottawa, in Berlin ......

Every signature is accompanied by an unspoken caveat: this will not last.

The world learned from #Trump's first term: Treaties are disposable.'

https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/
#TheIndex
@Daojoan