Sara, this is an excellent post this week. Thank you.
"I read a think piece a week about how, after the pandemic, employers who don’t get on the flexibility train will lose talent and be left behind." This struck me. I see it in the discussion of schools too, that if we don't get back to it right away kids will "fall behind." Fall behind what? What if we all just agreed to shut things down for a year, set the emergency brake, all of it, and sort out where we are, how we got here, and what we need to do to make things right. That seems to me the hard question, and the one we aren't doing a very good job of answering. I read this morning that the CDC is still strongly advising against people not traveling, and yet I can rattle off names from my very small circle of people who are, and others who are chomping at the bit to do so.
I think you are right, though. So much of this is a smokescreen to keep us exhausted and disengaged. It's so hard not to be.
Ugh, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had that exact conversation about why can’t we societally just agree to pause and really communally figure out where to go from here? It feels like we need better imaginations.
Sara, this is an excellent post this week. Thank you.
"I read a think piece a week about how, after the pandemic, employers who don’t get on the flexibility train will lose talent and be left behind." This struck me. I see it in the discussion of schools too, that if we don't get back to it right away kids will "fall behind." Fall behind what? What if we all just agreed to shut things down for a year, set the emergency brake, all of it, and sort out where we are, how we got here, and what we need to do to make things right. That seems to me the hard question, and the one we aren't doing a very good job of answering. I read this morning that the CDC is still strongly advising against people not traveling, and yet I can rattle off names from my very small circle of people who are, and others who are chomping at the bit to do so.
I think you are right, though. So much of this is a smokescreen to keep us exhausted and disengaged. It's so hard not to be.
Ugh, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had that exact conversation about why can’t we societally just agree to pause and really communally figure out where to go from here? It feels like we need better imaginations.