It can also be exhausting. Extended travel makes me very tired. And I generally like talking to people.

Hope the heat doesn’t impact your travel plans too much. Feel free to reach out if you’re around Hamburg, always happy to meet HNers

How do you find the language barrier problem? Do you speak English to everyone you meet?

lmk if you ever visit Zürich :)

I have a pet theory that we were better off when the economy flowed through Wall St rather than Silicon Valley because Wall St people ride the subway to work.

I am also traveling through Europe, currently in Budapest. Twice now in the last week, I have heard AI music being played through the speakers at restaurants.

I’m in Europe travelling and AI has been a boon navigating the utterly fragmented public transport.

I have been pasting screenshots of NS international to ChatGPT and getting from A to B.

I wouldn’t be so confident without ChatGPT

I wrote about how ChatGPT can help even more in this space https://simianwords.bearblog.dev/ai-can-fix-the-fragmented-o...

Just wait until everyone is using AR glasses which listen to your conversation, run it through an LLM, then use the speaker to bark an answer at you with the wearer’s previously synthesised voice, while they’re scrolling instagram inside the lenses.

/dystopia

I took my private jet to Fiji. Just needed a month to unwind and walk on the beach, sample local cuisine, get to know fellow travelers. Also highly recommended