First, a non-apology: I am not sorry that the blog took a little detour for the last few weeks. That story had been buzzing around inside me getting louder and louder and I had to get it out before it made me nuts. If you're still following, thank you for putting up with the detour. …
I’ve been thinking lately about the Jared Diamond book that I read last year, Upheaval. In this book, he analyzes the resilience of several nations in the face of crisis, through a lens based on characteristics that describe how people respond to personal crisis. Here is the lens he came up with: National consensus that …
Continue reading Off the Shelf: Using “Upheaval” to Assess the C19 Crisis
Yesterday was a little stressful. One of my colleagues coughed through a whole meeting. Another laughed as he shared that he had developed ansomia, the inability to smell or taste anything. But the worst thing that happened all day was that a meeting was cancelled and I suddenly had an empty hour on my calendar. …
The kind of conversation right now that bothers me is not where to find toilet paper or how many people managed to escape NYC for the Hamptons, the Catskills, or Florida before the lock-down. The kind of conversation that bothers me is people speculating how long we’ll be sheltering in place. Assuming that it will …
We all respond in times of crisis differently. A woman I know is an infectious disease specialist. She has been called back from sabbatical early to take the lead for her hospital in preparing. Her husband, also a doctor, is treating people. Their daughter is home from Harvard, forced to evacuate with all her dorm …
