Tuesday, October 07, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute — October 8, 2025



Six things to make you rethink the world of travel and tech (again).

Sobering stats on Agentic AI. — Not every agent is earning its keep; adoption remains sluggish.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eordax_ai-agents-workflow-share-7380548720695611392-fYRf

Airline loyalty maybe should be like a car wash. — Subscription simplicity? Great idea. Implementation? Not going to happen.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/174743830

Notebook LM’s AI autopsy. — A podcast dissects Play’s failure—and the irony that AI narrates its own postmortem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ZK8WpNbfcW0

BA Holidays dumps OpenJaw. — Thoughtworks takes the wheel as BA Holidays modernizes its tech stack.

https://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/british-airways-holidays-partners-with-thoughtworks/

Now they know how the rest of us feel. — Pilots discover coach class… and empathy.

https://viewfromthewing.com/pilots-start-to-sympathize-with-passengers-as-soon-as-theyre-forced-to-fly-in-coach-roundup/

Quirky — The self-driving car reimagined: fewer drivers, more philosophers behind the wheel.

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/themes/the-future-of-self-driving-cars-reinventing-the-road-ahead

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#PMM #AI #AgenticAI #Airlines #Loyalty #BAHolidays #Thoughtworks #Pilots #CoachClass #Quirky #TravelTech

Image description:

A Picasso-style cubist painting where technology and travel collide: geometric agent figures fading into code streams, a revolving loyalty card like a car wash wheel, an AI face reflected in podcast microphones, an aircraft tail labeled BA turning toward Thoughtworks’ abstract logo, a pilot squeezed into a cramped seat, and a ghostly self-driving car with an empty steering wheel. Surreal, vivid, and sly. 

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