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This Upgrade, episode 181. Today's show is brought to you by Linode, Square Space, and PDF Penn

from Smile. My name is Mike Hurley, and I am joined by Jason Snell.

Hello, Jason Snell.

Hello, Mike Hurley.

It's good to talk to you again.

As always, I know that you are traveling this week, Jason, so I have a traveling related

hashtag snow talk question for you and it comes from Eric. And Eric says, I left my AirPods in a hotel room because they were the same

color as the sheets what is the most expensive thing that you have lost on a trip?

I like the the sheet detail there because you can imagine the horror of like oh white

air pods case white sheets you don't see them and then you leave I don't think I've

ever lost anything particularly expensive I remember I was on a work trip and I left my

And I was in my 20s I left my one belt in in the room and I get home and I realize the belt is not there and the person I was

rooming with one of my coworkers was still in the hotel room so I just called him and I said can you find my belt it's

probably I told him where it was and he said nope so that was that I don't know whether he kept the belt for himself or is not somebody who can pay attention to looking around a room, but I lost that belt.

But I have no good tech stories. I don't think I've lost anything

particularly expensive that I can recall on a trip which is which is good I'm a

little obsessive about making sure that we're packing everything up when we leave a

hotel room especially. Yeah I've never lost any technology I've lost articles of clothing

right right I mean I may have done that too. Every now and then I have an article of clothing that goes missing and I wonder if I left it somewhere, but I don't know for sure. I can't confirm or deny.

You never like left a Kindle in a seat back pocket or anything like that?

My wife left a Kindle in a seat back pocket on our way back from Hawaii.

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