What seemed like a few short weeks after Autodesk University 2024 in San Diego, last week I was back in the San Francisco Bay Area for internal Autodesk Research meetings.
On the Saturday I hopped on a flight from Zurich to San Francisco. The flight itself was comfortable enough – at least it was direct.
I love arriving at SFO. It brings back all kinds of memories of when we lived in the Bay Area back in 2000-2003.
The sun was setting as I took a Lyft into downtown SF.
I stayed one night at Hotel G, which was on Geary just off Union Square.
The room was basic but comfortable. I always say to myself “it doesn’t matter – I won’t spend much time there, anyway”, but that turns out not to be very accurate when you're fighting jetlag and waking up (if you're lucky!) at 4am. That night was particularly fun as Hotel G is right next door to the Westin St. Francis, where disgruntled staff members are striking. And when I say striking, that’s literally the case: they're striking…