Ian Mackey

Working on podcasts @scicomm

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@JehanGodrej @jackcsullivan @ARunnersMind Running the SJ half with both of you was awesome

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Five million views on this episode.

Thank you @davidsenra @R_Mohr @ianmackey

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@JehanGodrej What’s the best Indian food in the bay?

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@SahilBloom @OrevaZSN DeleteMe is fantastic

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@JehanGodrej Negative

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

I look at what pilots and flight crew use:

- Briggs & Riley (what I use)
- LuggageWorks (seems to be the popular choice)
- Travelpro

I’ve also heard good things about Sterling Pacific

[@levelsio @levelsio]

It's not just luxury hotels that are a scam, it's almost everything that's luxury that's a scam

Gf bought Rimowa suitcases, expensive and supposed to be better quality than regular ones, but of course they're much worse

They keep breaking, like all of them, cracks in the handles, cracks in the sides, it's just cheap plastic shit but it costs $1000 or more

Rimowa was bought by LVMH in 2016 which has an average profit margin of 66% and whose strategy is to increase prices by ~5x, decrease costs by ~5x and then create artificial scarcity (limited availability per shop) because people want what they can't get (not me though but many)

LVMH is kinda like the luxury version of private equity, it makes everything more expensive and worse and hard to get!

[Jared Zoneraich @imjaredz]

reasons why you should invest in relationships with your users

@scicomm just sent us a truckload of yerba mate

thank you! we are machines that convert caffeine into tokens

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@levelsio Briggs & Riley all the way

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@DevinAI @imjaredz +@scicomm

[Tanning Salon Don @TheSalonDon]

Most people have no idea how credit card points work

DO NOT JUST BOOK IN THE PORTAL

10k Amex / Chase points are worth:
$150 for domestic flights
$500 for international business

1) Go on a website like seats. aero
2) Search your route
3) Transfer points directly to the airline
4) Redeem points

Always shocked that people have premium credit cards and don’t know this

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@yrechtman @MarriottBonvoy A constant struggle. Insane that this is still reality.

Internet speed should be presented at the time of booking.

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@semisauced @_ZachGriff @AmericanAir I see. I’m fine with Viasat. Panasonic is unusable

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@semisauced @_ZachGriff @AmericanAir They're moving from Panasonic to Viasat?

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@Box_of_Jacks @BasicAppleGuy Yes, it arrived

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@R_Mohr @davidsenra @RickRubin @scicomm @chrisrayfilms @MartinFobes @blabacphoto We don’t mess around

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@davidsenra @togro42 @RickRubin

[Ian Mackey @ianmackey]

@R_Mohr @scicomm The analog console was awesome

[Rob Mohr @R_Mohr]

One of my favorite episodes so far.

The conversation, the setting, everything.

I asked Rick if we could record at Shangri-La less than 24 hours before this was scheduled. Huge thanks to him, the team at Shangri-La, and the @scicomm crew for making it happen last minute.