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I’m experimenting with work, life, and building new educational tools. This is where you can follow along, join in, or find inspiration.

Where is Josh now?
Chiang Mai, Thailand

PURPOSEFUL LAYOUTS

Calm Canvas adapts to your vision without resistance. Its grid system is precise yet flexible, letting you compose pages that feel intentional whether you are building a portfolio, a blog, a shop, or a personal site.

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SWIFT BY NATURE

A lean, well-considered codebase means every page loads swiftly and feels fluid across every device. Calm Canvas never sacrifices performance for decoration.

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TYPE WITH INTENTION

Carefully curated typeface pairings and generous line spacing make every headline clear and every paragraph a pleasure to read. Your words deserve a stage this considered.

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Ideas

These made me think.

  • On Giving Up

    Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips writes, “We tend to think of giving up as a lack of courage, as an improper or…

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  • Learn to be curious

    “If you understand how to have a deep curiosity about everything — and I mean everything — you have an…

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  • Rebellious attention

    Algorithms drive our attention In a world where we are spoon-fed every next thing, reclaiming our attention may be the…

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  • Sleep, mosquitos

    Mosquitos staying active longer In less encouraging news for my upcoming trip to Southeast Asia: “A new study published in…

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  • Procreating parakeets

    Love birds “The New Zealand native kakariki karaka, or the orange-fronted parakeet, has twice been declared extinct only to later…

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  • A.I. art coming to Los Angeles

    What has it cost us? “The project’s dataset is a large nature model (LNM) – an open-source model trained on half a…

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DISCOVERY

BEAUTIFUL FROM THE FIRST CLICK

Calm Canvas is designed to look as good on day one as it does a year from now. Neutral tones, balanced proportions, and considered typography mean you spend less time adjusting and more time publishing. The theme works quietly in the background so your content can move to the foreground.

Reading

What I’ve read or am reading now

  • Song of Achilles

    By Madeline Miller “We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” My notes In…

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  • I Leave It Up to You

    by Jinwoo Chong “A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is…

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DISCOVERY

BEAUTIFUL FROM THE FIRST CLICK

Calm Canvas is designed to look as good on day one as it does a year from now. Neutral tones, balanced proportions, and considered typography mean you spend less time adjusting and more time publishing. The theme works quietly in the background so your content can move to the foreground.

DESIGN WITH CALM

BEGIN BUILDING TODAY

Replace our free images with your own, refine the palette. Keep the structure beautiful so you can focus on content.

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