“Be careful Straight Trees often have crooked roots”
— Random Fortune Cookie
Doesn’t really matter how we got here but London is dormant, empty and anxious to return to “normal”. Only there will never ever be a “normal” again.
9 am: I’m at Baker Street tube station and there is no rush hour, I comfortably get a seat. Gyms are packed with people trying to keep the body and brain active and the façade of returning back to normal is heavy in every conversation.
So how to plan around uncertainty? How to find some confidence?
The Facts
- Gatherings are very limited
- All face-to-face services are now chronically slow and prone to cancellation.
- The “working from home” economy will be here until March 2021…yes another 6 months of this should be expected.
- Zoom dominates the global market for video conferencing and is totally accepted by all
- Social media and WhatsApp are the primary methods of news.
- Cloud architecture is now the primary, on-premise data centres are now the far side of the network
- Site-to-site VPN to on-premise resources is now not as vital, remote access to VPN to mask your home location is more useful.
- Being tracked via your mobile phone is a certainty and accepted by most.
The excuses – How to get away with almost anything right now
- Waking up at noon every day
- Walking around the house in your underpants
- Being late
- Being slow
- Not being accountable for anything
- Not trying
- Not coming up with new ideas