Writings on Josh's site

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Free/Libre Open Source Software.

Sometimes a reboot is the best option.

Most people are familiar with the quote commonly attributed to Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.”

Counterintuitive, but game-changing.

I spend a lot of time on the Internet.

We have within each of our skulls an inbuilt technology that allows us to take our very thoughts — no matter how simple or complex — and through either rhythmic vibrations of air molecules propagating in waves between our mouths and our recipients’ ears,…

“Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity.

My phone’s camera isn’t great at capturing the full beauty of the skies at night.

It’s much better to be in a bad place but working in a good direction, than to be in a good place but heading in a bad direction.

Sometimes it’s easy to lull ourselves into that comfortable mindset that our day-to-day decisions only impact us — that it doesn’t really matter what we do, because the effects of our choices start and end with us.

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.” ~ Brandon Sanderson in Oathbringer Been loving this quote I read few weeks ago.

You’re creative.

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

“For myself, I am an optimist.

I’m not a big fan of WhatsApp.

We all have todo lists — commitments, tasks, obligations — things we’ve given our YES to.

Nutritionally, the idea is fairly intuitive: Eat junk, and our bodies reflect that we’ve been eating junk.

With exceedingly rare exception, you don’t know the full story.

When I was a kid, I hated history class.

Years ago I came to a conclusion I return to often: People tend to act reasonably in accordance with the world they’ve be presented with.

James Clear has a quote that I deeply appreciate: “Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life.” 1 I come back to this quote regularly.

Lately, every time someone shows me a YouTube video on their computer or phone, I find myself freaking out just a little.

Skill and concern mixed together can be powerful, and there are people today with seemingly more of both than ever.

Lately I feel like I’ve come to a place with internet and tech usage that I’m really liking, where I’ve been able to derive great value from what the internet has to offer, while being better at protecting myself from some of its more poisonous elements.

The process of being lead out of deception can be painful and hard.

So many things in our lives we know are awful for us, but we keep them in our lives anyway.

The lack of a currently viable solution is not a legitimate reason to disregard a problem.

TL;DR: You need a password manager to use the internet safely and efficiently today.

You’re wrong about something.

Creation works in cycles.

Download Audio Blessed are those who do not jump to conclusions, for they will see the world with unveiled eyes.

Update — September 2022: Technology apparently changes FAST.

Download audio /mp3/social-media-dtr.mp3 “Addiction is a condition in which a person engages in use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental conseq…

I read a book this year that convicted my heart more than any other (non-Bible) book that I've read in recent memory.

I originally wrote this on my Facebook account back in 2019.