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<\/a><\/p>\nAfter I put the baby to bed on Wednesday, I got in the car to drive the five miles to my local Costco. It was snowing as the sun went down, and because I was driving west I spent most of the time both staring at, and trying to avoid, the star’s monstrous and comforting output.<\/p>\n
I feel like I’ve been doing the same thing during my work days \u2014 in turns embracing and trying to avoid the reality of this awful situation, and how it encourages a strange amalgamation of micro normalcy and macro anxiety. By now, we’ve all grown into this routine, whether it’s merely finding a comfortable spot on the couch to spend the day typing away on a keyboard, to taking turns looking after kids or parents, to finding literally any excuse to leave the house, if only for a walk or a run.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s truly inspiring reading and hearing the stories from people who are making the best of this tough situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
As someone who has worked from home for a decade, I’m privileged to have my own office, somewhere that I can walk into and close the door behind me. That’s not true for most people in my life.<\/p>\n
I’ve been regularly speaking with friends and family members that have to navigate work, chores, and kids in one-bedroom apartments, many of whom have been asking about monitors and keyboards and Chromebooks and phones and internet upgrades and cellphone plans. It’s never been more apparent to me that as much as everyone embraces the internet on one screen or another, few want to contend with the technology that makes it work \u2014 or work better than the version they put up with until now.<\/p>\n