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Category: Technology

The Global eSIM That Wasn’t Quite Global

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I have become very fond of eSIMs. After years of hunting for SIM kiosks in airports, squinting at tiny plastic cards, and wondering if the plan I just bought would last three days or three minutes, eSIMs feel like a small miracle. Install it once, travel anywhere, and your phone simply works. That’s the promise anyway. And most of the time it does. For the past couple of years, I’ve been using the Discover Global plan from Airalo. It currently advertises coverage in 130+ countries, which is extremely appealing if you bounce between continents as much as I do. But…

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An Honest Report From the Bonus Content Department

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I’ve learned something mildly humbling, slightly irritating, and oddly freeing about the people who read me. They are not here for my digital products. This is awkward, because I love making them. Checklists, prompts, planners, toolkits, clever little systems with tidy names—these are my happy place. I enjoy thinking through problems and turning them into something useful, downloadable, and mildly bossy. It feels productive. It feels professional. It feels like something one should be doing if one is a Serious Creator on the Internet. My readers, however, appear largely unmoved. They don’t light up when I mention a new bonus….

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A Simple AI Tip That Makes Tech Less Scary (Especially If You’re 65+)

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You can’t make a real mistake with technology. Everything can be reversed. Let’s be honest. Most of the tech people rave about feels like it was designed for someone else. Someone younger. Someone who never worries about pressing the wrong button. Someone who grew up tapping screens without a second thought. When you step into that world, it can feel like everyone already knows the rules except you. And that is exactly why so many women tell me they freeze before they even begin. But here is the part no one says out loud: you are allowed to learn at…

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Still Curious at 70+? That’s Your Superpower

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How travel, wonder, and a little discomfort keep your mind younger than you think. Hey you—yes, you, the woman whose suitcase has seen more airports than boardrooms and whose curiosity has travelled further than most guided tours. I was reading this piece on VegOut Magazine titled “If you’re over 70 and still do these eight things without thinking twice, your mind is sharper than most 40-year-olds”. It struck a chord, because it’s not just about cognitive sharpness—it’s about living sharp, and isn’t that precisely what travel is all about? So here’s a post for women travellers—seasoned, spirited and solo or…

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When the Tail Starts Wagging the Feed

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Sometimes I feel like social media is a game I never actually agreed to play. The Illusion We Keep Clicking On There’s a peculiar rhythm to life online these days. We post, we refresh, we check the numbers. We call it “engagement,” but let’s be honest—it’s often more about scoreboard-watching than soul-sharing. Somewhere between hashtags and hope, we started counting instead of connecting. My day starts with coffee and a peek at my inbox stats. Then it’s off to see if my follower count nudged upward overnight. Did anyone comment in the Facebook group? Did the latest post get more…

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How ChatGPT might unintentionally limit you

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I like to think I’m fairly AI-savvy—after all, I’ve spent plenty of time experimenting with ChatGPT and other AI platforms, and even created a few GPT-powered apps myself. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the magic lies in the prompts. Buying ready-made prompts from sellers may seem convenient, but it won’t yield the results you want. The real skill takes practice. I’ve spent time training ChatGPT and similar platforms to reflect my unique writing style. While the results are often impressively close, they usually still require some refinement, editing, and verification—especially when research is involved. Yet, somehow it…

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What I read and discovered this week #29, 2025

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DELAYED LUGGAGE, BUGS, MOSQUITORES AND SHRIMP . . . Love this cartoon. I can’t tell you the number of times that my luggage has been delayed over the years… I am guessing it is approaching 10. It has consistently shown up, but often at least 24 hours after the initial request. Here is the critical takeaway from this article.  Report it ASAP, even if it means waiting in line at the airport. Don’t panic: A step-by-step guide to lost or delayed airline bags The following articles have little, if anything, to do with trade, but I found them fascinating. 1. …

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Using LinkedIn as a Senior Traveller

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Would you like to get my updated LinkedIn Magazine for 2025? It includes how to use AI. Click the image to your right. LinkedIn wasn’t available in the early days of my career. Then, I wasn’t sure how that fit into a platform built around job titles and bullet points. My path wasn’t exactly linear—more like a long, scenic route with layovers, course changes, and plenty of side roads. I’ve worked across borders, shifted gears more than once, and built a career based on curiosity and adaptability rather than a traditional career ladder. That flexibility has shaped not just how…

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