Lee Mallon

We stayed in 37 hotels in our first year of travel and here is what I learnt

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.

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?".

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.

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. You can read the post here https://read.leemallon.com/the-nuclear-winter-of-voice-technology