Feeling Bored In Isolation Or Quarantine?

The coronavirus (covid19) is here and will be around for a while, most likely many more of us will be infected. Like many of you, I’m stuck at my home office without the ability to leave as I’ve been exposed directly to someone who has tested positive for the virus. I have no symptoms and am healthy, but it does bring it close to home. Like many of you, I’m also tired of receiving community update emails from companies I didn’t even know had my email address, so in this post let’s get future-focused and think about what’s next.

Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics

As a Dutch guy living in Canada, I’ve been worried about my family in this crisis as they’re in a more populated portion of the world – and therefore statistics wise arguably more at risk than I thought I figured I would be. But for a second I forgot about my adage of lies, damn lies, and statistics. When you’re dealing with individuals, you have to throw the numbers out. So somehow, I ended up being exposed to at least one individ…