Flying

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+title: Flying to Vancouver
+date: 2024-04-15 09:37:00-05
+description: As I fly to Vancouver, I reflect on feeling grateful to have been invited by my friends to speak at InnovateWest and whine a bit about losing another forced time for disconnection.
+tags:
+    - travel
+    - ada
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+I think modern air travel is such an astounding human invention. All the little machines, systems and feedback loops that need to work _just right_ to keep the plane flying in all kinds of insane atmospheric conditions ... It blows my mind every time I fly even though it's not a novel experience anymore. And now, I can surf the net from my seat at [`30Mbps`](https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/fe77a1bc-5209-4864-9353-c6c8aae4ea2c)! I can work on Ada's code without losing my use of our cloud services and coding assistants.
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+Like many, I've always been able to get great reflection and work done on flights. Flying was a rare moment of forced unreachability where my environment removed the normal cues to check and send on my phone. I say _"was"_ because that's all changed in the last two or three years. I now notice that it's expected by some that I am still reachable when I fly. It's a subtle expectation, but it's there.
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+On the one hand, I always aim to be someone dependable and I do have a lot of tasks every day that require communication. On the other, as my responsibilities have grown, my time for reflection and deep work has shrunk. I often long for open blocks to write or just close my eyes and reflect on where I have come from and where I am going in all the many parts of my life. Flying used to be one of those uncontested times for me, but Intelsat had other plans. Good for them.
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+As I write this, I'm on a flight to Vancouver to panel with my friends [Dennis](https://twitter.com/dennispilarinos) and [Allen](https://allenpike.com/) at InnovateWest. As I reflect on this trip, I feel lucky to call them friends because they are excellent makers and of great character. I feel lucky that anyone thought to invite me to this and that anyone is interested in what I have to say.