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Atrophy of Vigilance

It seems governments and agencies around the world were mostly unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. Whilst contingency plans may have existed on paper, preparedness exercises supposedly seeing sporadic testing, response appears to have relied mainly on luck. Whose scientists random modelling most closely guessed the unguessable. Population subservience to military

Restart Your Perseverance Engine

The ‘survival triangle’, as originally sketched [https://www.johnhudsonsurvival.com/field-notes/2019/6/27/the-survival-triangle] out by John Hudson [https://twitter.com/jhsurvival/], is a cycle of Hope-Plan-Work. Revisiting media rounds due to a newsjack chapter addition to his book [https://themalestrom.com/interviews/john-hudson-interview-how-to-survive/], How To Survive A Pandemic.

Ideo Survey Presentation Fails

[https://www.instagram.com/p/B81hucPBxYK/] This delightful title card comes from design consultants Ideo. They recently conducted a survey to rate the quality of the average presentation seen in the workplace. Presumably hoping there’d be a morsel or two for a PR campaign to launch their online courses,

Gotcha Backlash

Trust in journalists has plummeted. Down an all-time deep ravine. The pit of which cannot be seen. Reasons for this are manifold. Outright partisan positioning of those pretending to be impartial chief among them. Self-righteous MSM shocked to receive a hammering from ordinary folk. One symptom is ‘gotcha journalism [https:

What's Your Prospect's Caribou?

In keeping with authorities around the globe, from the end of March, Canada’s Yukon territory government issued social distancing guidance to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Unlike elsewhere though, their relabeled ‘physical distancing’ efforts were deemed a social media “sensation [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-one-caribou-apart-campaign-1.

Shortening Your BAU Horizon

[https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/covid-19/pwc-covid-19-cfo-pulse-survey.html] American chief beansters apparently shifted their #bau stance this past month. ‘Business as Usual’ thought to push back rather from mainly inside three months (see their starting point at foot), to now instead more like between three and twelve. It

Dublin Dodge

As lockdown begins to ease, there’s a mandatory quarantine period proposed for anyone crossing the border into Britain from early June. To boos and jeers from all manner of transport and tourism. Dismissed by friends of the travel sector as a “3 week wonder”, July the 1st is from

Your Rocket Booster Tanks Plan

With most the planet on pandemic enforced lockdown over the weekend, a huge number of people like me must have watched the world’s first ever non-governmental manned space flight. Whilst rocket launches are hardly the stuff of remarkable tv footage any longer, I suspect this mass viewership was mainly,

Bicycle Breakthrough Necessity

Yes, there’s a devastating global virus threatening humanity. Set to be on the loose for a fair while yet. And I’m not only referring to the Chinese Communist Party. Coronavirus sadly surrounds. As I blog, the latest pain at the top of feeds being from the globally crucial

Corona Pie

> I’m not sure people realize how close we are to pushing coronavirus risk into nothingness even as we coexist with the virus for months. We’re taking a lot of bites out of this pie. I couldn’t even list them all. pic.twitter.com/YwwSBAgMDE [https://t.