What all the time amazes me about journey is how superior individuals all over the world really are. This previous month took me by way of Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Toronto, and…

What all the time amazes me about journey is how superior individuals all over the world really are.

This previous month took me by way of Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Cape Town, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Toronto, and Chicago. Most of it was work — constructing BlueMarvel means displaying up in particular person, within the crops and boardrooms the place our prospects do the laborious work of working industrial operations.

But the moments I’ll really keep in mind had nothing to do with the agenda.

I had a birthday on the street this month. One of our prospects came upon, and reasonably than let it go, he and his household invited me to their desk for dinner. A good distance from my family, that gesture stayed with me.

Then the tables turned. Back house in Calgary, I obtained to be the host — welcoming guests to my metropolis with a white hat ceremony, our native custom of handing somebody a white cowboy hat to say: you are one in every of us now. Watching individuals from the world over put that hat on and grin by no means will get outdated.

Here’s what a month like this jogs my memory. We construct AI that connects fragmented knowledge so groups can see clearly and act with confidence. But the true work beneath all of it’s easier: individuals selecting to belief individuals. Across nations, time zones, and dinner tables.

To everybody who hosted me, met with me, and made me really feel at house this month — thanks. You’re the explanation the miles are value it.

Where to subsequent?