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Hi, I am Lee Mallon and this is my podcast about technology, product and travelling the world with my family. I hope you enjoy, you can contact me at www.leemallon.com
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We stayed in 37 hotels in our first year of travel and here is what I learnt
We stayed in 37 hotels in our first year of travel and here is what I learnt
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WhatsApp is silently powering tourism in Asia
I am reading this article from a hotel room in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. I want to share a slightly longer than planned article about our journey through four countries in Asia on our year long world travels. Over the last five months, my family and I have travelled to UAE, Sri Lanka, The Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. Along this trip, there has been a recurring theme that I haven't been able to shake, and that is that WhatsApp is the silent force underpinning the Asian tourism market, and no one knows about it.
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What are junior developers worried about? 38 Zoom calls later and this is what I found out
I wish I got asked a lot more "where do I start as a new developer?" this happens rarely, and it turns out that new developers just don't want to ask. There is this belief that those more experienced are busy 😂 which if you saw how much more experienced developers mess around with home automation or build open-source libraries, you would know this isn't the case.
To combat this fear in junior developers reaching out, when I see someone online post something under #100daysofcode or similar, I Twitter DM them some words of validation (we all need that even if its from someone we don't know) and almost always in that message exchange I get asked in a roundabout way "how do I get a job?". -
Logistics of travel post-ish pandemic
Travelling around the world takes a lot of planning, but during and post a global pandemic it becomes a little more complicated. We have four months to go before we leave, and it is time to start booking some things up.
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The nuclear winter of voice technology
I love voice and conversational technology and think it will transform how we live, but we are in a period of frustration. Can we end the nuclear winter of voice?
A rant, observations and what we can learn from the mobile app industry.
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Working as you travel the world
Travelling for a year with my family opens up the question of working as you travel. My intention when we started to plan this trip (4 years ago) was to get up at 5 am and work until 10 am for 5-6 days a week. This would give me 25-30 hours a week of work time enough to hold down a job/run a business.