The Professor’s Minute Minute — November 7, 2025

 

Startups reviewed, energy shocks the experts, ATPCO decoded, a tool to bookmark, a shutdown threat… and crypto royalty drama.

US Transport Policy “Not Aligned”?

Sean Duffy claims the administration doesn’t share the same transport priorities. The political tug-of-war over aviation policy is heating up.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mccartneyscott_sean-duffy-says-the-administration-doesnt-share-7391838643503525888-LVypHot 25 Travel Startups — The Final Revisit

PhocusWire wraps up its review of the Hot 25 Travel Startups. A look at who thrived, who pivoted, and who quietly vanished.

https://www.phocuswire.com/hot-25-travel-startups-2025-revisit

This Matters for Travel

Solar power keeps outperforming expert forecasts — again. Future-proof travel infrastructure will depend on energy resilience.

https://killercharts.blog/p/solar-power-keeps-proving-the-experts

ATPCO… Explained (Well, Almost)

A “comprehensive” look at how ATPCO works — as comprehensive as ATPCO can ever be. Bring caffeine.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-177560239

Get This — It’s Useful

COMET by Perplexity is worth downloading. A sharp AI assistant that’s actually helpful for research and ideation.

https://www.perplexity.ai/download-comet

Quirky: Stablecoin With Royal Ambition

Crypto investors claiming UAE royal ties are launching a rival to Trump’s US$1 stablecoin. Because what the world really needed was… more royal-backed crypto?

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/11/05/crypto-investors-claiming-ties-to-uae-royals-set-up-rival-to-trump-s-usd1%2C110545040-art

A Picasso Blue Period–style cubist landscape (1200×628) with cool blues and muted tones. Symbolic elements: a set of rising and falling geometric “startup tiles” showing a mix of success and collapse; a bright solar motif breaking through angular clouds; a maze-like fare filing or data grid to hint at ATPCO complexity; a small comet-like streak symbolising the Perplexity COMET tool; an airspace grid with a shrinking corridor to represent the 10% US air traffic cut; and two stylised coins or emblems facing off, one with subtle Middle Eastern colour hints. No text and at most two subtle brand colour cues integrated into the art.

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