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Road Warrior: The Digestive Perils of Travel

Posted Feb 12th 2010 3:00PM by Robert Jackson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Whole Foods Market (WFMI)

I finally got it. That state of euphoria after you nourish your body with a life altering meal. Not just the flavors and tastes, but the entire dining experience including the smells (and lack of some smells), lighting, music, seats, everything. The experience that enables you to forget that you're in the middle of a bustling and boisterous city. As I leave Casa Satya and prepare to re-enter the city, I contemplate the impact of my life choices on my body.

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Road Warrior: 'On the Road Again, Just Can't Wait to Get on the Road Again'

Posted Feb 6th 2010 12:20PM by Robert Jackson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Consumer Experience, Research in Motion (RIMM)

As I sit in the Istanbul Airport watching the snow fall outside, I'm reminded of the song by the great Willie Nelson. Some of the best memories of my childhood include singing that song with my father, as we traveled on holiday from campsite to campsite. Today, those words have a much different meaning.

I just drained the last few electrons of my BlackBerry's battery, as I told my family the bad news. My flight has been canceled, and it will be another day before I get home, and another weekend lost in the air.

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Road Warrior: Help, I need an organizer for my organizers!

Posted Dec 11th 2009 1:00PM by Robert Jackson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Products and Services, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL)

Sitting in the Austin Airport, waiting for my flight home, I'm trying to gather my thoughts about the tasks and chores at home that need to be addressed. I've been lucky enough to stay home for two weeks (yes, Thanksgiving helped). As much as I was looking forward to two solid weeks with the family, I was also stressed and filled with thoughts of tasks that needed completion. Before the tasks started getting lost in the gray matter of my brain, I quickly began scribbling down my to-do list. Another to-do list amidst the sea of many I've already started!

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Road Warrior: Spreading the cement of brotherly love

Posted Nov 18th 2009 5:00PM by Robert Jackson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Columns

Although I have a couple of different topics concerning the life of someone who travels frequently for work that I wanted to write about this week, my mind and heart are filled with thoughts and concerns for a good friend and his new baby girl. I've been waiting for weeks to get a status on his new baby girl, and this morning I heard that since her birth Monday night, she's been in the intensive care unit. As soon as I read the update, my heart began to ache, and my eyes started to tear. Now, I'm not the most sensitive person in the world, but the thought of my friend's baby girl struggling for her life just rips me apart.

Throughout our travels, we get the opportunity to meet more people than imaginable. Some people we would love to call a friend and see every day, and some we hope to never see again! Years ago (not that many years), it was easy to travel, work with customers or vendors, and bid farewell, never to see them again. However, in the days of LinkedIn and Facebook, the ability to maintain contact with a one-time introduction becomes as easy as catching up on the day's news.

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Road Warrior: The value of day tripping

Posted Nov 13th 2009 1:00PM by Robert Jackson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Columns

We've all done it. Waking up before the crack of dawn, at a time when, not long since, we would be just leaving the clubs and bars. Jump into a hot or cold shower (or alternate) to try to wash the sleep out of our eyes. Walking outside, we take a quick glance at the stars that we so rarely get to see, before we take a seat inside the car, and start wondering how we'll make it back to the driveway that night. Day trips certainly are not fun, but they have seemed to become a necessity for improving productivity ... or have they?

Prepping for a day trip isn't unlike any other trip. Confirm the itinerary, check-in online, review tasks and meetings planned for the day, etc. After spending a full day at work, we go home, visit the family, and perform our typical nightly routine, If we're lucky, we get to sleep slightly sooner than usual, but nothing seems to help with that early wake up call.

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Road Warrior: My first ride on the Airbus 380, one heck of a plane

Posted Nov 6th 2009 1:20PM by Robert Jackson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Columns, Technology

Imagine being able to fetch water when you need it mid-flight? Or grab a snack between meals? As I found recently, you get a bit more freedom within the confines of the walls of the largest commercial aircraft.

My first flight aboard the gigantic Airbus 380 was approached with hesitance and fear of spending the next half-day in a middle seat. That's a fear, I'm sure, we've all had at least once in the past. My fear tempered when I spotted a window-seat behind my assigned row. The last row, but a window in the last is much better than a middle in the second-to-last!

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