January 2011
5 posts
Flight Planning Hacks
I feel like I’ve accumulated some minor bits of wisdom in traveling after logging so many cross country trips in the last year. Beyond advising people to keep a sense of humor and a bit of imagination (see above), I think there are a few tricks worth knowing about.
The Basics
Ticket prices are highest on weekends
Tuesdays are the most likely to have sales
Cheapest tickets typically...
“Paradoxically, education has become a way to avoid thinking about your future....”
– Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and first major investor in Facebook
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Everything is Amazing And Nobody is Happy
Sitting on a Jetblue flight the other day, I was pleasantly surprised to hear that we would be getting free movies to watch during the flight. So, I switch on the TV to “The Social Network” which was playing as the first free movie.
About 5 minutes into the movie, the captain gets on the PA and announces information about the flight which halts the audio on the movie. Visibly...
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The Cost of Social Norms -- dinner, sex, and... →
When social and market norms collide, trouble sets in. Take sex again. A guy takes a girl out for dinner and a movie, and he pays the bills. They go out again, and he pays the bills once more. They go out a third time, and he’s still springing for the meal and the entertainment. At this point, he’s hoping for at least a passionate kiss at the front door. His wallet is getting perilously thin,...
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Wronged but not wrong
Looking at the new year ahead, people naturally think about what they’d wish to do better — the pitfalls they’d like to avoid from previous years. When it comes to personal and business relationships, people inevitably have had times they feel like they’d been wronged by others. As a result, they may think they were wrong to trust that other person to begin with or wrong...