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Joshua Wold

The gods' patience

For centuries, the gods accepted humanity’s non-stop feed of foolishness, allowing their growing addiction to likes, shares, and the all too frequent fish-lip selfie. But there’s only so much a god can take. One day, after yet another viral trend—this time involving humans pretending to

Upgrading my Mac

As a thought exercise I’m wondering what would get me to upgrade my Mac. Before my current machine I used company owned laptops, and ran an aging MacBook Pro from 2014. It was past time to put out to pasture and hitting its limits for what I did as

Thought and speech

Apropos of nothing I find myself wrestling with freedom of speech this week. In America, at least, we have a level of protection around what we say. It’s not unlimited, but it’s substantial. As a kid I said a lot of stupid things. I’m glad they weren’

Why the flying experience feels so much worse

Nothing is more valuable on a plane than space. There are mathematical reasons for that, but if you’ve ever spent hours stuck in a middle seat or had the person in front of you demolish your knees while shooting backward into nap mode, you also just know it in

How much to share

I’m always torn between how little and how much should be shared. Of course there’s things I’ll just never post online, preferring instead to share with friends. With that said, even within the limits of what I’ll post I’m often looking for the angle. Is

Telecomes fighting over unlimited data

For decades now, U.S. wireless carriers have sold consumers “unlimited data” plans that actually have all manner of sometimes hidden throttling, caps, download limits, and restrictions. And every few years a regulator comes out with a wrist slap against wireless carriers for misleading consumers, for whatever good it does.

Running is life

Since I started running in January, I’ve noticed something that, while not incredibly surprising, is still new to me: while I’m running, I feel stronger, more physically capable, and healthier. It’s a reliable way to experience eustress on a scalable level. I’ve been a runner since

Instruments in person

It had been years since I was in the same room as a piano. That changed the other day, and I didn‘t expect how deeply hearing it live would move me—far more than a recording of the same piece would. I’m not a musician. I know so

Closed floor plans

Over the last decade my wife and I have bought three houses, lived in a few rentals, and thought a lot about floor plans and house layouts. We’ve also watched our decent share of home improvement shows. I’m always struck by the apparently obvious statements on the benefits

Experience and comfort

When I first started out as a designer I was terrified at interviews for jobs, or sales calls to bring on clients to my agency. I studied the company I was going to meet, spent time looking up the person that would be on the other side of the table