Josh Kennedy
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JOSH KENNEDY

husband & dad
software engineer
product designer

I make software, design products, preach sometimes, and raise five kids with my wife on a patch of grass outside Nashville. That is enough state management for one man.

By day I work on short-term rental finance at Topkey. By night I build small useful things through Outpost Labs. Away from a keyboard I am usually with my family, or walking into the woods after a golf ball that lied to me.

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Recent projects

Small bets, useful tools, and at least one cheerful confrontation with mortality.

01.1

CoachBase

The boring administrative half of independent coaching, handled. Clients, scheduling, invoices, calls, and notes stay in one place so the coach can go coach.

Out in the wild

01.2

Cadence

A quieter back office for independent music teachers. Lessons, families, schedules, and money, without asking a piano teacher to become an operations department.

Still arguing with it

01.3

Clean Directory

A directory of independently owned, cleaner-living brands, including who owns what. Marketing gets rather less mystical when somebody writes down the parent company.

Out in the wild

01.4

Killswitch

Estate planning for people who would rather not spend a Saturday marinating in their own mortality. Necessary, organized, and considerably less dreadful than it has any right to be.

Out in the wild

01.5

Honest Lies

Golf gear from independent makers, with the claims checked before they become adjectives. It turns out “handmade” means more when somebody asks who made it.

Out in the wild

Assorted marginalia

What I am reading, what is stuck in my headphones, and a few opinions that refused to stay private.

Books I keep recommending

Reading log ↗
  1. Project Hail Mary Andy Weir

    Competence porn for people who still believe in problems.

  2. Dungeon Crawler Carl Matt Dinniman

    I will not apologize.

  3. Ordinary Michael Horton

    The unsexy book that keeps winning.

  4. 1984 George Orwell

    Still the warning label. Still being ignored.

  5. Alas, Babylon Pat Frank

    Cold War dread with a Florida porch attitude.

  6. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone Benjamin Stevenson

    A mystery that knows it is a mystery. Good manners.

  7. The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman

    Why your door is gaslighting you.

  8. Rework Jason Fried and DHH

    Permission to ship the small version and go home.

  9. Stars of Alabama Sean Dietrich

    Southern storytelling that does not wink at you first.

  10. The Gospel According to Jesus Jon Moffitt

    Grace pointed outward, not a new homework list.

Recently in my headphones

Full history ↗

Consulting the listening apparatus…