Joan westenberg

I’m JA Westenberg, the voice behind Westenberg. I’m a writer, technologist, and perpetual skeptic, always prying at the edges of systems to see what’s holding them together (or what’s about to break). I’ve spent my life working in and writing about tech, politics, and philosophy, trying to piece together the bigger picture of how we shape the world—and how it shapes us in return. I founded signalvs, a media lab, startup and agency, and The Index, an independent, reader funded news site.

Westenberg is a blog for people who question the systems around us—whether they’re built from code, culture, or political ideology. It’s a space where technology, philosophy, politics, and productivity all come together, tangled and messy. Mostly because that’s how they are in real life.