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Joshua Wold

Julia Chesbrough: Subscription business model for fractionals

This week on Fractional we had the privilege of interviewing Julia, a freelance designer who has been running her own subscription based product design business. As a product designer myself I found this a lot of fun to chat with her. If you're in the design field, or

Where did Apple get its content?

Everything was fun and cool until they showed generative image creation that spits out slop “resembling” (strong word) other people; and in this post, everything was cool until they mentioned how – surprise! – Applebot had already indexed web content to train their model without publishers’ consent, who can only opt out

Catching ideas

I have ideas all the time. Most are fleeting and not fully flushed out. Some ideas are for things I want to write, others are things I want to say, and still more are creative projects I want to try. Recently I’ve started putting all that into Apple Notes.

On failure

Failure is an interesting word. My brother and I were talking about it earlier today. First, I love how stories get to the heart of so many things we wrestle with each day. From a recent quote I learned, attributed to Cassandra Clare: Fiction is truth, even if it is

Magic Mouse Love

Everybody’s dunking on Magic Mouse, meanwhile I’ve tried all the MX’s and MSFT mice, and always come back to it. Even prefer it over Magic Trackpad. From Stephen Robles on Threads. I’m a massive fan of the Magic Mouse. When I’m working away from a

Remote autonomy

I remember the days of working in an office, nearly a decade ago, and can compare that now to working remotely; and the common thread through that is the value of my work has been tied to autonomy, clarity, and combined trust between me and my colleagues. When it comes

Working at work

Because of the types of companies I’ve worked with (mostly startups), and because of years of freelance with smaller teams, I’ve had the privilege to work with a ton of people since 2007. In all that time the biggest factor that came down to my personal enjoyment of

Half apology

A half apology is a little like half a balloon. It takes effort, but it doesn’t have much utility. Seth, as usual, nails it. The opportunity for an apology is just that–an opportunity to demonstrate to the person you care about that you see them, understand them, and

Apple sherlocking passwords

Apple Inc. will introduce a new homegrown app next week called Passwords, aiming to make it easier for customers to log in to websites and software, according to people with knowledge of the matter. From Mark Gurman at Bloomberg. This was a topic with my cohosts on Ultra Pro Max

Fractional podcast guest

This week we were joined by the fantastic Heather Corallo as she came back on Fractional to talk about finding customers as a fractional business owner. It was a fantastic chat. If you’re interested in being in freelance/fractional work in general you’ll find the topic fun to