{"id":5097,"date":"2020-08-28T22:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2020-08-28T22:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T22:08:23","slug":"simple-plan-ditch-the-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=5097","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Plan&#8230;ditch the SmartPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Be careful Straight Trees often have crooked roots&#8221;<\/p><cite>&#8212; Random Fortune Cookie<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Doesn\u2019t really matter how we got here but London is dormant, empty and anxious to return to \u201cnormal\u201d.\u00a0 Only there will never ever be a &#8220;normal&#8221; again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9 am: <\/strong>I\u2019m at Baker Street tube station and there is no rush hour, I comfortably get a seat.\u00a0 Gyms are packed with people trying to keep the body and brain active and the fa\u00e7ade of returning back to normal is heavy in every conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">So how to plan around uncertainty? How to find some confidence?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Gatherings are very limited<\/li><li>All face-to-face services are now chronically slow and prone to cancellation.<\/li><li>The &#8220;working from home&#8221; economy will be here until March 2021\u2026yes another 6 months of this should be expected.<\/li><li>Zoom dominates the global market for video conferencing and is totally accepted by all<\/li><li>Social media and WhatsApp are the primary methods of news.<\/li><li>Cloud architecture is now the primary, on-premise data centres are now the far side of the network<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>Being tracked via your mobile phone is a certainty and accepted by most.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/light-bulbs-1125016_1920-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/light-bulbs-1125016_1920-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/light-bulbs-1125016_1920-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/light-bulbs-1125016_1920-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/light-bulbs-1125016_1920-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/light-bulbs-1125016_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Keep thinking <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The excuses<\/strong> &#8211; How to get away with almost anything right now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Waking up at noon every day<\/li><li>Walking around the house in your underpants<\/li><li>Being late<\/li><li>Being slow<\/li><li>Not being accountable for anything<\/li><li>Not trying<\/li><li>Not coming up with new ideas<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Don&#8217;t just sit there waiting for things to get back to normal&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Do Something<\/span><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Be careful Straight Trees often have crooked roots&#8221; &#8212; Random Fortune Cookie Doesn\u2019t really matter how we got here but London is dormant, empty and anxious to return to \u201cnormal\u201d.\u00a0 Only there will never ever be a &#8220;normal&#8221; again. 9 am: I\u2019m at Baker Street tube station and there is no rush hour, I comfortably &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=5097\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Simple Plan&#8230;ditch the SmartPhone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,169],"tags":[130,93],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-insulated","tag-destructive","tag-talent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5393,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}