Joshua Wold

Recently I was hanging out with a friend. He shall not be named, mainly to protect my own embarassement. Because he had a pet allergy I offered my allergy medicine to help avoid a flair up. He thanked me, and took a moment to read the label on the medicine—

I’m working on having stronger takes. What does that mean? Instead of dithering on a topic I state my opinion and back it up with available data. It’s straight to the point, and can be disproven. There’s risk in having takes. You could be wrong. But it’

No matter how hard a project, no matter the pressures and timelines, I find that sleeping on it almost always helps. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t just ship things sometimes, it doesn’t mean that we don’t do our best and try what we can to get

It’s now going on four months since I’ve been on social media. It’s been a fun experiment just stepping away entirely. The time I’d usually spend there has transitioned to this blog, reading articles, more podcasts and books, and even the occasional game. Part of me

A few months ago I started tracking my sleeping. I’d tried in the past but found the whole thing uncomfortable because I mostly sleep on my side. A trick I tried was to flip the watch around, facing my inner wrist at night. Now that I’m sleeping with

Alright, so one my personal pet peeves is the idea that being right requires forcing your views. Too often we resort to coercion, trying to convince someone else that our way makes sense. We justify in our mind that it was the correct thing to make someone do a thing

We’ve all had that friend. We text them and they never ghost us. Days, weeks, or months later there’s an awkward exchange where they apologize for not following up, and assure you they forgot. I used to think this was some grand coverup. Others were intentionally leaving me

Perhaps you're finding yourself unable to push even a tiny bit further on a project. No amount of brute force or additional time will unblock your desire to check that item off a list. In almost all cases the answer is to take a break. Get some water,

I’m a perfectionist. Or rather, a recovering one. In every area of my life I want things to be perfect. I’ve learned, slowly and painfully, to ship something messy to the world instead of hiding until every part is perfect. Yes the things we ship feel ugly and

Some days I have all the energy in the world to tackle every problem I could imagine. On those days it seems I can work for twelve hours straight and come up wanting more. Other days I can barely manage to get through the afternoon, exhausted and feeling that there’