Absolutely blaming the surrealness of our current world for me totally missing my weekly post. Ideally I'd like to share some good news or at least something light hearted, but those dopamine hits feel few and far between these days. At this point I'm way past trying to use this blog for anything related to my professional life.
Right now, many of the patterns we know and love have been obliterated... “My wife actually said this to me just a couple of days ago: ‘It's like there's no future,’” says [child psychiatrist Fredrick] Matzner. What she meant was we can’t plan for the future, because in the age of the coronavirus, we don’t know what we’ll be doing in six months, or even tomorrow. We’re stuck in a new kind of everlasting present. “And so everything seems completely otherworldly,” Matzner says. - "Why Life During a Pandemic Feels So Surreal", Wired
Honestly, what's been helpful these days are a handful of gems I've found on YouTube. Here's a few of my favs:
- Just about all of the Late Night with Seth Meyers monologues
- Smarter Every Day
- Wisecrack
- Basically anything from DOMi & JD Beck and Louis Cole. And yea, I realize it's Louis Cole in that clown getup playing drums in a porta potty – I've had plenty of time on my hands.