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Personal Observations While Traveling During COVID Times

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.

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

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,

Three Months and Three Life Hacks

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

Day #72 — Still No End in Sight

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.

The coronavirus

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

Confinement – A Visual Essay

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

The coronavirus

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

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

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

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.

Apple's Tim Cook

WWDC2020 to be Virtual Only – My Take

At long last, Apple joins the plethora of other companies announcing updated conference plans. They had but no choice. Unsurprisingly, Apple announcement offers a twist by presenting this as a new experience, like if from now on, this is the only way WWDC will take place. I can’t wait to see how dif

The World Right Now

Why is this door closed and locked? What is behind it? What can be seen through this window? Where is the key to unlock the lock? Is it still available or was it thrown away? When and why this ship was abandoned? Where did people go? This picture has so many unanswered questions. For me,… Continue R

On COVID-19: I’m Not Afraid (Yet) but I’m Angry

I’m not afraid. Yet. I’m just angry. This clown (and his incompetent team) in Washington DC are at the worst place at the worst time. This “super-power” is unable to test enough people. So we cannot have the required data to act upon. This is catastrophic. Meanwhile, conferences are being cancelled.