Tyler Jefford - Senior Engineering Manager, Chicago Illinois

This year, our golden retriever puppy has been the ultimate reminder of a lesson I’ve preached for years: take the first step first.

Brian Alexander’s The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town is a sobering, deeply human look into the quiet collapse of rural healthcare in America.

I recently bought an Xbox Series X.

As I fired up the blog machine again—upgrading Laravel from 9 to 12 and Statamic from 4 to 5—it didn’t take long to hit some pretty big bumps.

I think it's time to start blogging again.

I've been in a lot of frustrating meetings during my career, and many of them have one major problem in common: the participants are talking, not listening.

Apple introduced the Apple Vision Pro last week to some mixed reviews.

Over the month, I have been working a lot on this product launch for June.

Over the past few years, people I've worked with have heard me talk at length about my two pillars for building and maintaining high-performing teams.

Its been a very stressful and busy last couple weeks leading up to this product launch.

A common occurrence nowadays is businesses complaining about shrinking customer bases, while simultaneously raising prices for everything.

I've been reflecting on partnerships, both personal and professional.

April is usually a fast month, but this one was measured in how many 15 minute meetings I could add to my work calendar.

In 2020, I wrote about my process for staying organized and my goal of keeping things simple.

Its been a really busy week, so I didn’t get to finish my follow up on staying organized.

In 2020 I wrote a post about journaling and how I benefit from the simple act of writing things down at the end of the day.

It seems like this month was only two weeks long.

There is a lot of talk about how AI is going to disrupt many industries, and that's true.

Being on call for incidents can be incredibly stressful.

I work at a large company with many teams, departments, and even sub-properties under the company umbrella.

It's been a pretty stressful few months for me, which has forced me to be intentional about the time I spend on things outside of work.

February was a really tough month for a lot of reasons at work and in personal life, too.

Last week I wrote about how I use Notion to manage my work week and talked a little bit about the way I have my database set up for TODOs and Notes that feed into a weekly dossier.

I attribute much of my success to my ability to organize my thoughts, tasks, and notes for future reference.

At the end of 2022, as in previous years, I took some time to reflect on the year that had passed.

I'm back to blogging and posting weekly.

I love to read, and I want to keep notes and other data about the things I read.

Something that has been helping me reduce my screen time is limiting the number of notifications that reach my screen.

A journey of taking control of all the emails, notifications and personal data leakage that has happened over the year, I have been trying to unsubscribe from all the emails I get in my inbox.

Introduction In October 2022 wanting to rapidly produce some new reports I felt constrained by the code I had mindlessly wrote over the last couple of years.

While I have been cleaning up my emails and unsubscribing from as many things as possible, I noticed a recent uptick in amazon notifications coming to my phone.

Every year, I set a goal for number of books and topics to read.

Relaunch In 2020 I rebuilt my blog and started to post regularly.

I know, not the most original title to a blog.

A seemingly simple quote from Ron Swanson, of the TV show Parks and Recreation, I think its often easy to think you can do everything.

Here we are start of 2021- 2020 was a year that will be remembered as one of the worst in history for many.

What a month!

Whats your favorite app on your phone to use daily?

Many companies will have end of year reviews for all employees.

I can’t believe October is already gone.

This week is election week in the US, and I am not putting out a regular piece of content because I need a break away from technology.

Early in my career I had trouble focusing on building my skill set in a single area.

People, teams, companies, relationships all go though hard times.

I have been thinking a lot about privacy in technology.

I don’t hide the fact that I journal.

What a blur, I can’t believe it’s already October.

Its been a pretty busy last couple months with ups and downs both at work and in life.

Stealing the management book name from Michael Scott, of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, formerly of Michael Scott's Paper Company, I wanted to share my thoughts and insights into how I have been managing a team remotely who once was in the office.

If you have the luxury of starting a new team, or evolving a team overtime, you might want to try collaborating with the team on a working agreement.

This month was wrapping up a big project at work.