Joshua Wold

When I tackle a new idea I wrestle between jumping in with effort focused in a specific area and planning and organizing the idea to be a full force effort on all fronts. The former is exciting, makes progress quickly in a small direction, while the latter both increases the

Thanks to Patrick (and the folks at ATP) for bringing attention to the different noises that AirPods can make. Sound UI is so limited, and even though I’ve figured out most of the noises over the years, not all of them are obvious. One note: I want a way

Recently I had the privilege of sitting down for one of the longest games of my life. A little over a year ago some friends introduced me to a new game called Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition. This tabletop board style game, along with the fantastic expansion Prophecy of Kings, is

I had a realisation the other day that I’m using Nintendo Music so much I should probably go ahead and cancel Apple Music. I’ve started testing out Nintendo Music the last few days and love it. Currently I’m on a Donkey Kong Country kick. My controversial take

News orgs, published authors, great artists, universities, want to retain ownership of their intellectual property and don’t trust the utility of AI chatbots. I’ve wrestled with this. I don’t love that AI chatbots can steal my writing (however inconsequential it may be). As a writer, of prose

Seriously, I’ve been using the redesigned Apple TV remote since 2021 and I still have to look at it to remember where the mute and play buttons are because they’re not where I’d expect. 4 years of use and it’s still not muscle memory! The Apple

And if you’re waiting for unanimous approval, you’re never going to ship that important work. Love this take. Earlier in my life I was looking to make sure people agreed before I did a thing. Now I realize that a thing that all agree on isn’t worth

When I first got online, via an AOL CD-ROM, I thought being online was the AOL homepage. And the only button that mattered was the kids only section. And the best game, of course, was Skunny. It wasn’t until over a year later that I discovered the browser. My

In design, in writing, and in most creative fields, allowing yourself to create in a draft state opens up ideas and puts your brain in a safe mode. You can try this new thing, accept that new idea, make a happy little accident. One of the reasons that I push

As a child I gained strong ideas strongly held and clung deeply to them. That’s fine. It’s good to develop an identity and build beliefs around it—to a point. Not necessarily because those beliefs are right in the objective sense, but because childhood requires having a sense