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ORD >> YYZ >> YUL >> NYC >> ATL >> MIA ORD

How was your Week so far?

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That's a crap week. My weekly happiness metric is something like:

100 / number_cities_i_visit^2

Based on my metric you are 4% Happy :D

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You need to adjust the calculation to factor in the number of oceans crossed....perhaps changing the exponent from 2 to 3 or 4 in those cases.

Worst week ever was ORD-PEK-KUL-BOM-DEL- LHR-ORD....3 continents, 6 cities, 32 meetings in 164 hours.

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I’m perpetually jet-lagged and consume lots of caffeine on the ground (not something I would advise). My general approach to managing international travel is to push through on day 1 so that I sleep well that night. I don’t have the ability to sleep on planes so I work and read for most of the flight. When I am not traveling overnight, I try to get at least 7 hours of sleep. When I see posts bragging about how late people are working I just shake my head. Lack of sleep impacts your cognitive skills resulting in it taking longer to complete tasks requiring critical thinking...which means people work longer....a vicious cycle.

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Partner 1 how did you manage? Recently doing ORD - PEK and feel like a train wreck when I get off the plane. Regardless of amount of sleep on the flight

@PWC1 business class bay bay

Biz class does not save you from that schedule. You are a zombie when you travel like that.

Happiness metric for international/long haul travel is...

100 / number_of_cities_i_visit^(2 + miles_traveled / 3000)

Mostly because I don't like long haul travel. If I stick to my normal east coast routes the first metric is accurate enough. If I have to fly transcontinental or to Europe I get increasingly grumpy.

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