Tag: Travel
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Napkins, Ice, Toilets, and Passports
Allow me to indulge in some trans-Atlantic compare/contrast’ing. I was back in Texas and Chicago for a few weeks recently, so of course noticed some difference between Europe and America. It’s the tiny differences that stack up. Talking about them can be an annoying tic of expat people. But, whatever. It’s been over two years…
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Link: We Need to Talk About Mental Health and Travel
Taking some time out of your day to reflect on the good things you have in your life can be very beneficial to your mental health. Sometimes when we get caught in our downward spiral of negative thinking, we forget that there are a lot of great things to be thankful for. Jotting down 10…
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Link: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide
Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, London, Los Angeles, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New Taipei City, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco Bay Area, São Paulo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, and Zurich. Source: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide
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Sadly, my flight was delayed two hours. Somehow, I managed to cope nonetheless. From instagram
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Link: The problem with being a long-term expat
Karen, a British citizen now in Malaysia, who prefers to be known only by her first name because her husband works for a large multinational, recalls their 22 years on the road became more difficult as their children got older. Both are now at university in the UK. Having never lived in Malaysia, they don’t…
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🗂 Life on the Road With Susan Orlean
> How do you pass the time on a flight? > > Sometimes I’ll do tasks that are usually so tedious that I would never be able to do it at home. I’ll spend an hour going through my contact list and update it. There is a lot of stuff I do on planes that…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book #43
There’s an insane block of travel coming up for me in October, and then Asia in November. Figuring out a “road warrior” job is difficult, and I’m constantly asking if that’s the life I want, away from family a lot. The perks – pay, seeing people and places, all the frequent traveler benefits, and also…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #36
We move to Amsterdam in 5 days. We’re nearly done packing up our whole house. It’s surprisingly easy to just get rid of things, all things: clothes, kitchen stuff, furniture. People say this all the time and it’s true: you should get your house in shape for selling while you live there so you can…
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Link: The Travel Industry’s Data Dilemma: Turning Insights into Action
“Further complicating matters, a large amount of customer data still lives in departmental silos, with sales, marketing, and customer service each supplying separate customer experiences. Those databases can easily grow stale or become inconsistent, since customer information owned by one department is often not shared with others. Keeping it up to date is an even…
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Link: My advice for a Paris visit
“If you want to spend forty euros for a very good but not revelatory lunch, find a “cool” area with lots of restaurants and poke your head in at their opening, at 12:30, to ask for a table. By 12:45 it is too late and you are screwed and back to your favorite cheese shop.…
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Link: Slack/Concur integration
“the bots will give users the ability to approve expense reports right from Slack, upload expense receipts, search for and book flights, and create basic expense reports from within a bot chat” Original source: Slack/Concur integration
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DevOps Hustlers, Cloud-native Ops, Amazon + Whole Foods – Coté Memo – Issue #31
We had a two week vacation over at Gulf Shores, Alabama. Despite three days of rain, it was great. If you’re looking for a Gulf-beach vacation, it’s an excellent place to go – just about 10 hours from Austin if you drive fast and don’t have to stop a lot for kids to go pee.…
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Link: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers
“Apple watches now account for more than five per cent of app usage, giving customers access to real-time flight status, gate information, a countdown to the departure time and the weather at their destination.” Source: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers
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Here’s why you should expect airline disruptions to get worse
It’s nice how they turn it around at the end. Here’s why you should expect airline disruptions to get worse
