This week I am going on a work trip. Flying.<\/p>\n
It’s been a while since I have flown somewhere for work. I suppose technically my first work trip was when I flew into the Soviet Union December 1991.<\/p>\n
Since then, I’ve had to fly around for jobs that require photo badges. My 2nd work trip was to Washington DC. I try to think of what that destination has to offer, what that spot has that’s different from where I live, and experience that.<\/p>\n
D.C. was easy. My colleague and I went to the Smithsonian.<\/p>\n
Some places take more thought. This week I’m going to Atlanta, to visit Coca-Cola headquarters. We don’t have much time. Maybe the headquarters of Coke Corporate is a sufficiently unique experience. I can check that box. Still, I’d like to see what more is there.<\/p>\n
I’d like to try what foods they have that are special. I hear Georgia peaches are good, but I don’t think peaches are in season. I’ve been to Atlanta before, and I ended up with a man at a piano in a hallway, talking and singing. He was very good at playing, I wished I could remember a song to play as well, but I was shy. I mostly sang.<\/p>\n
He was actually from Texas. But when I told people later what we’d done, they said that was very Atlanta.<\/p>\n
It was fun.<\/p>\n
How do they do things differently? What do they know that I don’t? How could we help each other?<\/p>\n
Trips should be fun. I get to travel hundreds of miles away–paid for by someone else–I want to taste and see what the world has to offer.<\/p>\n
Mat Ridley (author of The Rational Optimist) talks about how trade is what made our far back human ancestors beat out the Neanderthals for dominance.<\/p>\n
We shared what we had and what we knew. And the world got to be better and better for us. Good ideas can spread through trade, he says.<\/p>\n
I agree. If a person can hold it in their hands, try it out for a long time and come up with their own opinion about it, that’s pretty convincing.<\/p>\n
I am looking forward to seeing what Atlanta has to offer me this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week I am going on a work trip. Flying. It’s been a while since I have flown somewhere for work. I suppose technically my first work trip was when I flew into the Soviet Union December 1991. Since then, … Continue reading