Jet Bridges, Zen, and the Art of Not Boarding First

What's Your Strategy at the Gate?

We all have our little rituals. That weird lucky scarf we always pack. The Spotify playlist we only play while packing. The trick to hiding toothpaste so security doesn’t snatch it.

Call it style, call it survival—digital nomads develop techniques. Not in the TikTok-hack sense, but in the been-there, been-burned, now-I-know kind of way. After years of ba…