Joshua Wold

I've been thinking about seasons lately. It might be a result of a recent Cal Newport episode (great podcast by the way), or just the fact that we're shifting from Winter into Spring here in the northern hemisphere. Life can't just be the same

I was talking to a friend recently about career progression and the challenges I've faced over the last two decades in navigating work and life. So much of what we talk about as a society is related to the effort we're supposed to put in, and

Product design, product management, any roles that touch the digital creation space for app development: all of these are shifting and changing so fast. In the last couple of weeks, I've had numerous conversations with people in and around these jobs. I've met a lot of

Leadership is tricky. It's easy to get wrong. It's easy to take the wrong assumptions from finding a willing follower and believing that their adoption of you means anything in particular for your greatness. That's not it at all. We could all do with

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” ― Fred Rogers I've been thinking about this quote a lot lately, and it keeps coming

I have an annoying trait that I've come to appreciate. The energy with which you demand I do something creates an equally inverse desire to not do it. Thankfully I'm not the only one. But for some reason it seems to be built in a bit

The shift in product design Product design is changing as a profession. I've been writing about this for the last year, but just this month it feels like things are accelerating. I'm not the only one thinking this. It's crazy how some changes take

There's a lot brewing right now about AI taking over the world. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But stressing out over the future doesn't help. Yes, I want to keep learning all I can and apply the learnings practically; but anxiety isn'

My career started because I got into graphic design as a teenager. That led into me being a product designer today. I got my first internship at a screen printing shop, and things took off from there. I did good work, showed up on time, and used it as a

I feel like I've become someone who enjoys the idea of something more than the actual thing itself. I've become a collector of people's thoughts. All without ever having read many of those thoughts. How so? Well, I've been using Reeder as