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Joshua Wold

Creativity doesn't end

You don’t just run out of creativity at one point. It’s not like you had a specific amount at the start of your life and each creative act depletes the reservoir. Instead creativity comes from a rested mind, a frantic mind, a nervous mind, an angry mind. There’

Origins of creativity

Creativity comes from constraints and freedom tied together. Pressure is ok, good in fact. It’s a wonderful thing to know that you have boundaries around your work, something holding it all together, forcing you forward. I think of the anology of swimming through a hard current and struggling against

Guerilla User Research

I’ve had the privilege of working alongside several fantastic UX Researchers over the last decade. Anytime I had a project where I could get help from one I gladly took the opportunity to learn everything I could. My understanding at this point is still basic; there’s so much

Exercise changes us

And the thing that we were really surprised to find was that really they turned into almost different beings. I mean, exercise was that potent. Every single tissue we looked at should something completely different from before. It really changed the entire molecular makeup of the individual organs of the

Finding ideas

I’m never short of ideas for writing these days. I’ve kept a habit for years of capturing any ideas for articles into Apple Notes. When I sit down to write for the day I usually have an idea of what I want to say, but if I feel

Unscribing attempts

Sometimes, an unwanted email isn’t actually “spam”, it’s just an email that you’d have rather not gotten. My general thesis is that if you keep up with this fight over time, eventually your inbox is generally pretty clean, and the fight doesn’t seem so overwhelming to

Blow drying your hair

There’s a Great Clips right next to the highway I needed to get on to go to the event, and one of the services they offer is a shampooing. I could just go to Great Clips, get my hair washed, hop on the highway and go straight to the

AI Clones

This video by Sara is good. We’ve come a long way from Will Smith eating noodles. Clickbaity YouTube thumbnail and headline aside, I’ve been thinking about an idea I heard on a podcast today. What if I were to use AI to do a talking head of myself,

Enjoying the beauty

It’s the start of the year. That means we’re talking about goals, dreams, resolutions, hopes, and the like. These things are important, although I have varying opinions on the value that should be placed on them depending where I am in life. Having a thought about where I

Cheap is fine

Last year I was talking to a friend about the tools I use online. He commented that he doesn’t pay for anything and always looks for the free tool. At the time I teased him a bit, feeling good about all the tools I pay for, but there’s