Joshua Wold

I’ve been a product manager and a product designer, and sometimes both at once. Because of this I’ve had the privilege of looking at the role from multiple angles and seeing where it helps and where friction can cause problems. Some companies eschew the role of product manager

It’s easy to keep pushing forward at all costs, eyes on the prize, ever shooting upward. But sometimes we come up short. Sometimes we don’t know the next step, or feel overwhelmed or spent. We shouldn’t get to the point of absolute emptiness before taking a moment

I had a great conversation with someone recently about meditation and its value. He challenged me to try it. I’ve tried it out in the past, and appreciated it in small bits, but never found a way to really work it into my daily life. The closest I’ve

My journey into writing words was not super conventional. Though I was taught the pieces and structure of English, my mind failed to hold it all together. If you put my on the spot I’d struggle to define adverbs, adjectives, and their proper place in a sentence. Prepositions I

I prefer my phone without a case. Tragic circumstances notwithstanding. I’ve had a lot of phones at this point. But I got my first smartphone sometime around 2013. Before that I loved to carry around the iPod Touch. I’ve had one or the other in my pocket since

Each day with good health is a gift. None are guaranteed it, and at some point we all lose it. When it’s gone we wish it back. But when we have it we rarely realize it and appreciate it. There’s also a large gradient of great health to

I’ve been wondering recently how more of my words can resonate and be that needle in the haystack, that thing resonating with myself and others. Then I realized, it’s the same with reading. I read words all day long. Most slide on by, adding little to my life,

Steal Like an Artist is a book that’s positively shaped my creative journey. In college my art professor started every student out copying from the best artists. Using vellum paper I'd meticulously trace across drawings from Leonardo Da Vinci and the like. With time I got a

It’s 2025 and a good time to record what’s on my Apple Watch home screen. On all my devices I like things as minimal as can be. On my iPhone my homescreen has the Apple Calendar Widget at medium size, and Things 3 at medium size. That’s

Yesterday, OpenAI dropped a new release of ChatGPT and today the internet has exploded. Again. My social feeds across the five or so — sigh — networks that I regularly check are bursting at the seams with images created with OpenAI’s new image functionality. And it’s hardly a surprise; it’