March 2020

One of the things that seems to throw everything off about this time is that it’s not what we expect. It gives us what we don’t expect. And it seems like one of the surest ways to be unhappy is to simply wish that things were different than what they are. We just, you know, […]

It seems like one of the things contributing to the mindset these days is this idea of waiting. There’s kind of a feeling that we’re going through a period, things are different, but we’re kind of waiting for things to get back to normal. And even if we don’t consciously think of it that way,

One of the things affecting my mindset in this situation is just my sense of time. For some reason, this weekend it started to feel like it’s sort of hanging in time, like there’s no clear sense of movement towards something, but instead everything’s sort of sitting in stasis, just permanently in this situation. And

It really seems like this lockdown situation is a perfect storm for escapism. And we’re only just beginning to see some of the effects that this is going to cause throughout the whole world, it seems. I mean, we’re really being encouraged to hide away at home. And it doesn’t matter what you do. You

One of those basic principles that really seems to be highlighted these days is this idea that there is no perfect security. There is no perfect safety safety and security are always a trade-off. We always have to sacrifice something in order to get some measure of safety and security. But we can never get

Well, it’s easy to see now, after several days of increasing isolation, increasing anxiety, that it’s quite understandable for a general mood of grouchiness, a kind of irritability to spread throughout the people generally, and more time spent with crowded conditions, or cramped conditions, routine broken, lots of uncertainty about the future: everybody, even without

You often hear about this contrast between being reactive and being proactive. And usually it’s presented as it’s good to be proactive, and that’s a better way to exercise decision-making, leadership, is to choose your own actions rather than simply responding to whatever’s coming in. But it seems like we have to have both. You

So I’m appearing a little extra shaggy today, isolation mode, lots of time at home, still trying to get outside when I can, but a little bit more on the whole hermit side of things now with so many events being shut down. And my thought for today is that we really can never understand

There’s this peculiar phenomenon I’m trying to figure out of staring at disaster, sort of becoming obsessed with disaster. You can see it all over as there’s just this hunger to find out more details about everything that’s going wrong. And it seems like this is the same kind of thing that happens for somebody

Seems like in the world there’s only one story right now that everybody is talking about. And even as I realize that I’m obsessing over this one story, and there’s of course other things happening, and yet it feels so reasonable to be entirely focused on this one story. There is nothing else that is