Blue Jay Way is where I publish my thoughts and musings on management, design, technology, and life. I’m into creating things – be it products, businesses, art, and relationships. Living and working in Silicon Valley makes this a lot easier. I spend my free time parenting, dreaming up new businesses (occasionally breathing life into them), building and designing new things, flying airplanes, volunteering in non profits, and helping budding entrepreneurs.
My extraordinary wife Danielle found her calling in sexology; there’s never a dull moment with her. She and her amazing partner Celeste run a successful coaching and therapy business – more about them here.
Jay (Yair) Harel.
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Mottos:
Simplicity
“Perfection is reached not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing to take away”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Gumption
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Resourcefulness
“Scientists solve problems that can be solved. Engineers solve problems that have to be solved”
- Anonymous
Realism
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”
- Philip K. Dick
Pursuit
“Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds”
- Tom Peters
Practicality
“Real artists ship”
- Steve Jobs
Transience
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”
- John Lennon
Perspective
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well”
- Joe Ancis