Miscellanious
Personal Observations While Traveling During COVID Times
Traveling during COVID-19 times: observations of human behaviours and tech in action. A few delightful surprises, but many deceptions.
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Thinking
Porting Office Work, A Really Bad Idea
I hate open space offices. I don’t particularly like meetings. I do like seeing people at the office from time to time, not every single day. I work better when I’m isolated. Disruption is a productivity killer. Does the work from home works for me? You bet. I don’t have young children. The house is
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Ghost Office and Strange Feelings
I had to return to my office for a day this week. I’m still not sure why. My last visit there was on March, 12th. I didn’t know what to expect. I knew there would be other colleagues too, but how many? This is my short recount of visiting a ghost office since the beginning… Continue Reading → [https
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Feeling Robbed
One hundred forty. One hundred forty days. We all remember March, 13th, right?. That’s the day the confinement started for me. For many of us too. And since then, normality is taking another meaning. Something that we didn’t chose. This is our war. Our third world war. Nothing like we could expect,
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Three Months and Three Life Hacks
Today is a special day for many reasons. I’ve been working from home and (mostly) confined for exactly three months (March 13th). It’s certainly seems like a long time, but I cannot help but think that it’s only the beginning of a long journey. In fact, I can no longer consider myself as being confi
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Day #72 — Still No End in Sight
After 72 days of relative confinement, I see no end in sight. And I like this new normal.
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Eight Weeks
Two months in confinement. I’m not sure we are where we should be on the battle against the virus. It seems we were reacting in much better ways than in some other countries. Yet, here we are. The number of new cases each day is only stabilizing, not decreasing yet. It is a bit depressing… Continue
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Confinement – A Visual Essay
Yesterday, I went out for a very long walk in downtown Montreal. Since the beginning of my confinement, more than a month ago, I wanted to go out and experience the city’s emptiness. I took eighty pictures from which I selected nine of the best. The subject of each photo is trying to portray confine
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COVID-19: A Month of Confinement
Today marks a month of my confinement. Already. Surprisingly, life still goes too fast. Yet, I do have a feeling it is only the beginning. There will not be a clear cut return to normality. It will be slow, painful, full of uncertainty. It is why I have a feeling that we won’t be back… Continue Read
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COVID-19: Comments on Living and Working at Home for a Long Time
Today, I’m starting my third week of confinement at home per request of the local, state and federal governments (Canada). This confinement is supposed to last at least until mid-April. Personnally, I don’t expect to return to a “normal” situation before the beginning of May. My work from home setup
Technology
Working From Home? How to Improve Your Web Conferencing Experience
The coronavirus forces many people to work from home. Here is how to improve your use of collaborative software like web conferencing applications and be a good meeting attendee. The world is in a major sanitary crisis, putting our life on hold for many weeks, thanks to the coronavirus. Companies ne
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COVID-19: A Crisis All-Around me
Every day, every hour bring this crisis closer to me, all around me. More than ever, I live in a clear and present danger. It is less about angriness more about facing reality. Businesses are shutting down operations, temporarily, for now. My kids’ schools closed their doors for the next two weeks.