hey friends.
hi i'm josh
I make things, solve problems, and love oreos.
collection
Selected products, experiments, and practical tools.
12 Projects in 12 Months
A year-long push to ship a dozen ideas instead of sitting on them.
Pushup Hero
An iPhone app designed to make daily reps feel easier to keep.
100 Tiny Websites Project
A playground of small interfaces, visual experiments, and coding reps.
Finance for Humans
Videos that make money, markets, and personal finance easier to parse.
Eat Utah
Local food recommendations, restaurant notes, and recurring finds.
Adventure Map Quest
A game-like layer for turning real-life adventures into progress.
Full-Sized Tesla SUV Concept
A fan-built concept page mixed with product thinking and market analysis.
Year Dot Calendar
A simple way to see the year as a finite grid instead of an abstract blur.
Eatery Nutritional Calculators
Fast calorie and macro lookups for chain restaurant meals.
This App Will Give You Abs
A calculator for the tradeoffs, habits, and math behind getting lean.
writing
Essays, rankings, guides, and useful reference pages.
You need more sleep
A work-in-progress essay on the cost of underestimating sleep.
How to Reindustrialize the US
A long-form argument for rebuilding productive capacity in America.
Movies You Can't Stop Thinking About
A list of films that keep lingering after the credits are done.
Super Bowl Commercial Hall of Fame
A ranked archive of the ads worth remembering.
Guide to Fun Things to Do in Provo
A local guide built around actually good options, not filler.
Best Christmas Songs
A ranking for holiday music that still holds up after repeat plays.
Best Thanksgiving Songs
A niche holiday soundtrack list for the one day that needs one.
Recipes
A small collection of recipes worth making more than once.
small useful things
A few tiny shortcuts that save disproportionate amounts of time.
Instant Google Drive Documents
Type sheet.new, doc.new, or slide.new to instantly open a fresh Google document.
iPhone Keyboard Cursor Trick
Hold the space bar to turn the keyboard into a mini trackpad. It is much easier than tapping between letters.
Fix Mailto Links for Gmail
If mailto: links keep opening the wrong app, this Chrome extension makes Gmail your default.
contact
If you want to collaborate, hire me, or send me something interesting, email is still the best option.