Noah Gildersleeve - Noah Gildersleeve

Learning cooking from scratch during the quarantine: Part 3

Part 3 of our intrepid journey into me monologuing about cooking for an insane of time is about more of my current cooking setup, what I bought to upgrade my kitchen, and what I'm currently cooking. The BackgroundI lived on the road while traveling for several years and I ate

Cooking

Learning cooking from scratch during the quarantine: Part 2

I had to split this piece into so many parts because it got long. We're going to go over a basic subset of supplies and some of the reasons that I decided on them. Basic suppliesRecently I was considering moving, and trying out the area before I decided. I was

Cooking

Learning Cooking from Scratch During the Quarantine: Part 1

The StartI learned to cook last year during the quarantine. I had never really cooked much. Once I surprised a good friend of mine who had come over to visit. They said that I had no food at all in my fridge. Which was inaccurate. I had stuff for nachos

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 for the next link. Kind of gets rid of the anticipation though doesn’t it? Setting up your VPS instance

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 shared hosting plan, like most people that administer their own sites. It was fine when I was just hosting my

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 to put in my two cents. I am very much for doing a carry-on only traveling lifestyle. For weekend trips

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? So you deposit some money in your account what’s next? You buy DAO with something called ether. It’s

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 democracy. It also gives a lot of entrepreneurs an alternative to either the VC or bootstrapping route (aside from crowdfunding,

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 definition of family would be the

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 more than three hours or so

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 ton of work done as well

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 stuff set aside for the wedding

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. I won’t be working

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 paths that I would never tolerate

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 a pretty small bag so I

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 already live 2000 miles from my

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 my gaming stuff, and my computers,

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 would be leaving a good job

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 yoga, even though intellectually we know

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, in a city that I love

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 years or so in Portland OR.