It was bound to happen in the current global pandemic scenario – someone close to me caught the dreaded Covid-19 virus. I had a lot of questions when I found out, and so did a lot of people, so I thought it would be helpful to share this information so we are all better prepared against […]
Archives for April 2020
A Circuit Breaker Story
Last Friday at 4pm, Singapore’s prime minister made an announcement about Covid-19. We have decided that instead of tightening incrementally over the next few weeks, we should make a decisive move now to pre-empt escalating infections. We will therefore impose significantly stricter measures. This is like a circuit breaker. It will help reduce the risk of a big […]
Some Good Things
In these trying times, it’s easy to slip into what Harvard Business Review has classified as grief. Yes, we’re also feeling anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we’re uncertain. Usually it centers on death. We feel it when someone gets a dire diagnosis or when we […]