Ramit Sethi uses a one-page travel SOP to lock in his preferences: airlines, seat types, arrival times, hotels, room details. Once you codify what you want, booking becomes plug-and-play. No more re-deciding the same things every trip.
These are all repeated decisions. I don't want to repeat them. I want a freaking SOP, standard operating procedure. That's why I have a one-page travel document. It's simple, it's nothing fancy. It just captures what I already know about myself, including the airlines I prefer in descending order, the seat types I like, arrival times that I avoid, basic hotel rules such as which hotels to stay at, or if I have a favorite hotel In my case, I'm very specific down to the room that I stay in and things that I genuinely don't care about. This turns every trip booking into much easier plug-and-play planning, so I don't have to reopen the same debates. What time should we take off? No, I start from a default that already works.
