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Don't Waste Your Life, Always Read

About a year ago I woke up. There was a reason for this, which I've written [https://joshuawold.com/the-power-of-reading/] about before. Now I can't shut up about it. I've been reading as much as I can get my hands on. I'm constantly buying new books. Yesterday I was at a second hand store and picke

When Not Requiring a Down Payment Taught Me a Valuable Lesson

I landed my first paid design project when I was 13 years old. I will protect the guilty by changing the name of the owner, we'll call him Bob. My job was to create several hundred icons for an online kids gaming website. Designing icons was fun for me. So when Bob contacted me, it was a dream come

Update

It's been a little over a year since I've updated this blog. Originally it was an attempt to write on the topic of minimalism every day. I had a good four month span and then felt overwhelmed and stopped writing. Since then I've thought

Ups and downs

Our society is full of tired people. We overwork ourselves to the point of exhaustion. We don't get enough sleep. To combat this we take caffeine in many forms, all to keep us more alert and awake. It starts in the teen years and progresses throughout adulthood, if

Passion vs process

Some days I am passionate about writing. Other days I don't write at all and end up falling behind on this blog. I'm realizing that a year long project like this isn't about being passionate every day. It's about breaking the project

Busy work

Working on a project or part of a project that doesn't add to the bottom line is busy work. It's staying busy for the sake of being busy. This is nonsense and a waste of time. Ask yourself why you're checking your email so

Flooding

I live in the Midwest, as a result I've been privileged to enjoy the benefits of liquid sunshine. The place where my wife and I store our extra belongings flooded last week. A lot of our stuff was ruined with water damage. We had to chuck stuff out.

Minimal Blogging

I've gotten behind on my blogging. I was inspired again today by a post on mnmlist.com. A blog should inspire others. Here's my inspiration for the day: mnmlist.com/tinyblog

Running

Today I did something I haven't done in a while, I went for a run. In the past year I've put off running because of lifting weights and trying to gain weight. Running (at least long distances) seemed to have the opposite effect for what I&

Help people, help people

If you aren't in the business of helping people then you're not in business at all, at least you won't be for long. Business is not about outwitting your opponent, or seeing who can get the better deal. A true business transaction increases the