Remote Soft Skills while remote Soft Skills are always important, but they are even more important while working remotely. Let's take a look at some concrete examples.
Remote Communication While Remote Communication is hard at any time, and it's even harder when you're remote. When is it better to email or call, and what do you do with way too much email to read? Some thoughts.
Remote Remote work vs SIP/Quarantine work Remote work is much different than quarantine/shelter in place work. Take it from someone who's done this a lot, and still finds this new reality difficult.
Remote Starting to manage remotely Managing remotely is challenging, especially if you haven't before. Let's talk about it.
Hosting Hosting Horrors Part 2 Time to get back to it, hosting your sites that is. Unless you’re reading through the archives. In which case it was just time to click on the link
Hosting Hosting Horrors Part 1 I started hosting all of my own websites on VPS instances in the cloud. I was sick of the price and quality of hosting in general. I was on a
Minimalism Curse of Carry-on Carry-on or checked bags Oh ho (as in hi-ho, not hi you ho), this is a subject that has been done to death among travel blogs, but I’m going
Bitcoin Bitcoin, Ether, and DAO Oh My! Part 2 We return to our heroes deep in their quest to buy DAO (or bitcoin, or just reading stuff on the internet to justify their curiosity, no judgement). What’s next?
Bitcoin Bitcoin, Ether, and DAO Oh My! Part 1 So you want to buy some DAO So you want to buy some DAO. Good for you. It sounds pretty cool right? I’m a big fan of decentralized autonomous
Personal Loss of Possibilities I’ve been trying to start writing more, again, although most of it has been letters to family that I’ve fallen out of touch with. Fortunately family, to some extent, transcends the time that causes most relationships to fade. I suppose a decent
Technology Working On the Road So you’re working remote. You have a deadline, and you’re saaaaay in Southeast Asia, like me. Where can you get it done? I know some people that work quite well from lobbies in hostels. Personally if I need to get
Minimalism The Terror of the 40 Hour Work Week So, I came out to Phuket in order to get back in shape. I enrolled in a fitness camp and did a meal plan and booked a room for a month. I have done about none of those things, but I have got a
An ode to Portland I’m getting ready to leave Portland. I thought I was completely ready, aside from getting my car detailed (more expensive then I expected) returning the CPAP to Apria, which is at the freaking airport. I have my bags packed for India and
Realities of working remotely This post is going to be getting technical, so if that isn’t your bag you might want to bail now, if it is then sit back and enjoy. So I am going to be working remotely for my company while I travel.
Breathing and Stress I used to be prone to vicious outbursts, and metaphorical self-flagellation. I would internalize conflict until I exploded in either violence, hitting walls or a punching bag if it was around, or going over the different viewpoints in my head arguing in increasingly circuitous
Backpacking, Backpacks, and Daypacks When you say that you’re traveling somewhere cheaply people will respond, “So you’re going backpacking?” This activity is tied so closely with your bag it is both symbolized by it and named after it. I wanted to grab
Family and Distance I was just reading my mother’s blog. She was talking about letting go of family that is leaving, specifically me. I knew that having me leave would be hard on my family, but didn’t think to long on it. I
ALL STUFF MUST GO!!! I was reviewing posts that I had written, but not put up yet. This one was blank. All my stuff is pretty much gone now.I also arranged to sell my car. I sold my guns (emo tear), and my guitar, and all of
Buy Things with Stories I wrote this before I took active steps to go travel, last February. I left it unchanged though, except for this, and that. I was recently talking with a very good friend of mine. I’ve been thinking of doing some traveling. I
Brother Sloth My father once told me when we were doing yoga that the yogis had a name for our mind, it was Brother Sloth. He was referencing how when we wake up in the morning we don’t want to work out, or do
Reasons for traveling My first post, I suppose an explanation of why I’m traveling is in order. How do you explain the decision to leave everything and everyone you know to travel with a friend? I have a career that I worked hard to get,
My intro An introduction eh? Is that what you want? I suppose I can oblige. My name is Noah Gildersleeve. I used to be a musician, then a helpful techie (IT, support), and I’ve been testing software at dev shops for the past 4
