The Professor’s Minute Minute — October 31, 2025

Ghosts in the Machine. Shadows in the Cloud. Contracts in the dark.

The Scariest Thing in Travel? Understanding payment contracts. Boo!

https://www.foxwilliams.com/2025/09/30/understanding-payments-contracts-in-the-travel-sector/

Agentic Commerce rises. When ChatGPT meets PayPal — the algorithms awaken.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paypal-openai-introduce-agentic-commerce-chatgpt-marcel-van-oost-vuucf/

Boeing bleeds again. Another write-off, another red mark in the ledger of ghosts.

https://leehamnews.com/2025/10/29/boeing-3q2025-777x-gets-new-4-9bn-write-off-as-earnings-results-prove-mixed/

Delta’s Ed Bastian confesses. “I don’t know.” A terrifyingly honest sentence.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/saying-i-dont-know-is-one-of-the-hardest-things-a-leader-can-do-a-conversation-with-delta-ceo-ed-bastian

ASEAN’s balancing act. Between ghosts of empires and shadows of Trump’s return.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aseans-multi-alignment-strategy-dr-parag-khanna-ytnwc/

Quirky: This dataset reads like a spellbook. DNA, data, and destiny collide.

https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/py2zkrb65h/1

Sources:

Fox Williams | PhocusWire | Leeham News | McKinsey | LinkedIn | Mendeley

Hashtags:

#PMM #Travel #AI #Halloween #Aviation #Leadership #ASEAN #Boeing #Delta #Data #Quirky

Image prompt (for generation):

A Cubist-inspired digital illustration (1200×628, LinkedIn horizontal). The composition evokes Halloween unease — Picasso-like faces half in shadow, abstract currency symbols, a 777 aircraft dripping red paint, a silhouette of a thoughtful executive under flickering light, Southeast Asian architectural motifs overlaid with shifting geometric ghosts, and glowing data orbs suggesting AI and Agentic Commerce. Palette of ochres, deep reds, cobalt blue, and muted gray-black tones, sharp angles and overlapping textures. Slightly surreal and unsettling, in the late-Picasso cubist tradition.

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