Teejay VanSlyke

Which are the shoes that are perfect for any and all weather conditions and activities?

In software engineering, it's not technical prowess that most often prevents projects from being completed on time and within budget.

People who know me closely know I have a crippling fear of flying.

Too often I'm tempted by the one of the two most extreme options when making a decision.

When it comes to clothing, I favor timeless, well-crafted pieces over the cheap thrills of fast fashion and whatever's in style.

When I was young, I read books and articles with ideas about how to be effective.

I think I know better than other people and I want them to know that.

I love coffee, and living in the Pacific Northwest means I drink a lot of it.

I've been on and off social media sites for years.

I'm a few days late writing this, but I wanted to chronicle some of what I've done, what I've learned, who I've met, and how I plan to spend 2019.

Yesterday I came across Bertrand Russell's essay In Praise of Idleness in which he persuades the reader that the idea work is virtuous and is an end in itself is a fabrication by powerful people who want convince others to do work for them and maintain th…

Have you ever spent a whole day trying to make a decision?

When I woke up this morning, I glanced at my bookshelf.

I've been making art and music since I was a child.

My friends.

Like you, I've been busy aging.

I've noticed that, since beginning my financial indepedendence journey, my psychology around risk has changed.

For the past few years I've been on a journey to become sober.

Have you ever noticed how, after accomplishing something you've sought to accomplish for a long time, you quickly find yourself feeling underwhelmed by the happiness you feel?

I'm learning to relax.

I'm sitting working on my computer in a cafe.

You've probably heard of new age ideas like the Law of Attraction, books like Think and Grow Rich, and movies like The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know?.

I've been thinking carefully about the meaning of life.

With historic wildfires raging across the American West and back-to-back historic hurricanes in the Atlantic, I'm left panicking at the prospect of facing once-in-a-lifetime weather events every year.

I have some beef.

I have a penchant for whimsically leaving the house without cause.

I stumbled into viewing Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next last night.

The rent is too damn high.

For the past few years I've been frantically saving and investing money.

Middleman is a static site generator written in Ruby.

I don't ever want to forget why.

Integrity is a virtue.

Self-help books.

Do you ever find yourself involuntarily trending toward making life more difficult than it need be?

The last time I went to an office was in 2007.

I went to Portland this past weekend to attend Edward Tufte's excellent Presenting Data and Information course.

Life is peaceful when there are buffers.

Marketing yourself sure is an anxious chore.

When I first began building complex React applications, I struggled to determine the best way to name and organize my components within my codebase.

Limiting beliefs are beliefs we hold which constrain us in some way.

I'm noticing a trend as I'm bootstrapping my consulting business.

Consultant.

I'm an anxious person.

Usually interactive projects involve one or all of the following creative talent: User experience (UX) designer Visual designer Front end developer Back end developer Quality assurance engineer A traditional project lifecycle looks something like this: The

You have an idea for a new online product offering.

Ah, the age-old question that eludes anyone who wants to build custom software: How long is this going to take and what will it cost me?

We knowledge workers love rituals.

Founders ought to be a bit less ambitious.

If there were one sort of interaction I wish I could take back from all my time as a software consultant, it would be every time I nodded my head at a client when they asked me to add one more feature, knowing full well that its addition would be costly a…

We read books that purport to uncover the techiques that will propel us to greatness.