About myself and this site
If you landed here, you're either lost or you have questions about who I am and what this site is all about.
TL;DR
Tyler Smith was born in 1986 in the U.S.A. where I still live. Manager and director in the localization and IP industries since 2012. I've written blogs since 2009, most of which you can find on this site. You can email me at hello@tylersmith.io.
Extended bio
A child of the 90s, I grew up loving to read, to imagine, and to understand as much as I could about everything. I saw someone play the violin for the first time at age 7 and have played ever since. A good student in high school, my first year in university studying chemical engineering quickly humbled me.
After a two year religious mission in Russia, I finished out college as a Russian language and literature major and went on to study Translation and Localization Management and the Middlebury Institute.
I've worked in various roles within the language industry including project coordinator and localization engineer, but I got into management early on and haven't looked back. Since 2018 my career has migrated from operations management to procurement and seems to be heading further and further into the IP industry.
I have a very small but steady side project where I coach high-earners who feel broke. I got into this because I'm a huge personal finance nerd, a good listener, and have a lot of experience teaching.
I have a very sweet dog who gets me outside every day without fail.
On the web
I quit social media ages ago. That said, I have a LinkedIn profile for professional reasons, though I don't engage on that platform. This site is my online presence. I don't post anywhere else.
About this site
I've been on a long and frustrating journey to find a new home for this site. I finally landed on Webflow because I'm too picky to use a theme I can't control down to the pixel but too unskilled to code from scratch and self-host. I shamelessly stole the design for this site from Manu Moreale, and recreated it in Webflow. I'm positive I'll tweak it over time. I just needed something to get started, and his style spoke right to my soul.
I'm very interested in blogging the old-fashioned way. I used to do it a lot when I was in college, before I got swept away into the maw of social media. I yearn for those blogging days, and I'm making an attempt to be that kind of internet person again.
I love to connect
I find that people with personal websites tend to be very cool and very interesting. Obviously I have one so... But really, I'm in it for the mingling. For the connections. I plan to link out to a lot of blogs from here. Basically, anything that inspires me. My inbox is open, and I'm down to talk about anything. Drop me a line at hello@tylersmith.io.