Writings on Josh's site

I wrote this post with pen and paper.

As we’re in the Christmas season, and as 2025 comes to a close, I’ve found myself thinking about all I have to be thankful for this year.

Daniel Manary recently interviewed me on his podcast, Artificial Insights.

Last week, in anticipation of COP 30, my wife and I were invited to talk about climate change at our house church.

Everyone is just 2-3 decisions away from a completely transformed life.

Dopamine is powerful.

I was recently asked to teach a small session on using prompt engineering to get the most value from AI tools.

This past week I’ve been listening to Ryan North’s audiobook, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler, which seeks to provide instructions for how to invent every major technology required for a thriving civilization.

I’ve continued to have people reaching out wanting to know more about the Interlinear Audio Bible tool I created last year!

Did you know that you have access to resources that increase the more you spend them and use them?

Simon Willison has a rule and belief I think I want to adopt: “I believe that the price you have to pay for taking on a project is writing about it afterwards.”

Two years ago, on February 6, 2023, two massive earthquakes hit the south eastern region of Türkiye and the north western region of Syria.

“If you want to change the future, start living as if you’re already there.” ~ Lynn Conway (via James Clear)

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.

A few years ago I came across Steph Ango’s 40 Questions to ask Yourself Every Year.

I’m a fan of the idea behind /now pages, /uses pages, and /hello pages.

I want to hear about how you got into “Your Thing”.

A couple posts back I shared an experiment I was doing with some machine learning models, to make a novel tool for language learning.

Yes, it’s much better than the path we’re currently on.

If there was a way to use dozens of enterprise-grade cloud software tools (that can each cost hundreds of dollars a month) for free (or nearly free), that would be worth exploring, right?

I’ve mentioned before that I’m currently working as Localization Director for Waha, which is an app and Bible Study curriculum that we are working towards translating into hundreds of different languages.

A few years ago, when I wrote a post about the history of Smallpox, I… got a little obsessed.

Do you litter?

There exists a well-known relationship between identity and action.

I heard this piece of advice recently: Never let a day pass without doing something that will serve you 10 years from now.

A few years ago, I found myself in a bit of a culinary rut — whenever I would cook for myself, it was usually the same 2-3 meals.

I recently joined the executive leadership team at the non-profit Waha, as their Localization Director.

I have been pretty outspoken on my love of RSS as a replacement for social media feeds.

I’ve had lots of experiences over the years of looking forward to a new movie or TV show being released.

“Imagine what would happen if we had as much courage for peace as we have had for war?

Have you ever logged onto public WiFi, but when you try to open a web page that you already had open, it just won’t load?

Today marks 2 years to the day since my dad passed away.

Sometimes it’s easy to fall prey to the dual lies that 1) we’ll have our loved ones in our life more-or-less forever, and 2) that love is something that we can give too much of or run out of.

I’m dabbling with an idea, and testing whether it’s a good fit for work and life.

I recently published my 100th post on this blog.

I’ve done my fair share of manually creating subtitles over the years.

A note to my future self (and to whomever else this may concern 🙃): When you chew on questions like “should I go to the gym?”

This morning, on day 8 of the 2023 Israel—Hamas War, my amazing girlfriend is mediating a dialog/debate between a Muslim and a Jew, about the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Triggers are not to be avoided.

There’s an quote often attributed to Abraham Lincoln that goes something like: If I had five hours to cut down a tree, I would spend the first four hours sharpening the ax.

Download Audio Blog It’s often pointed out that, in contrast to a majority of other religions and faith systems, the emphasis of the New Testament is what God has done for Humanity, instead of what Humanity needs to do for God.

I’ve been thinking about scarcity and abundance this week, and wanted to share some of those thoughts!

I don’t want to be a part of an “us” that makes a “them” of the world’s most vulnerable people. ~ John Green in Why Are Poor Countries Poor?

TL;DR: Those SMS authentication codes SUUUCK when you’re an expat who doesn’t always have access to the same phone number.

I just wanted to quickly highlight a really cool thing that happened in the world this week.

“You don’t need to catch up.

The Project 📹 A couple years ago I got connected with Andrew Case, the co-creator of Aleph with Beth, a YouTube channel with the goal of making top-quality Biblical Hebrew educational resources available to everyone who wants them.

I love personal websites and blogs.

I subscribe to a LOT of email newsletters.

When it comes to communication, there’s two extremes we can take: We can hope that those we’re interacting with just magically are in tune with us; we can communicate as little as possible, hoping that they’ll fill in the blanks with what we meant… or… We…