For those of us who are lucky enough to work in the service sector, life ought to be more productive under lockdown. There are no claustrophobic commutes to ruin our mornings and evenings, no sumptuous lunches to keep us from our desks, and no office chats to fill our heads with bile and nonsense. This is particularly true for journalists. Writing is the business of turning time into words: the more time you have the more words you should be able to produce.
Something always comes along to spoil the idyll. And in this case that something is Zoom, and the whole gamut of other meeting platforms that we're supposed to be using. Everybody had high hopes for them at first. You can join virtual discussions from your desk. You can dress like a slob. You can forget about the political jockeying and status-signalling that consumes so much of office life. Yet the longer the lockdown lasts the more irritating Zoom becomes.
Don't Fear or Judge the Wet Market Too Quickly Lurking behind the ignorance of wild foods or the visceral anger against wet markets is an implicit bias against other peoples and cultures.
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Cut and run: the underground hairdressers of lockdown Many stylists and barbers are secretly working to keep us groomed during the pandemic, despite it being against the rules. But who are their clients – and aren't they worried about spreading coronavirus?
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Philippines court convicts top journalist- what comes next? Ever since Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016, journalists have warned that his open disdain for the media would put press freedom in the country at risk. Those fears were underscored this week when the authorities found Maria Ressa, an internationally-renowned journalist, guilty of libel under the country's cybercrimes law. What does this mean for press freedom in the Philippines? Read the full story.
How to Transform Your Board Meeting with Written Narratives Written materials transform board meetings. With most of us working remotely, many startups have thrown out Google slides and replaced them with Google sheets. It's a fundamental change, and one I hope persists after work returns to the new normal. Amazon is famous for its narrative process and contempt of slides. The email in which Bezos banishes decks reads: "The reason writing a good 4 page memo is harder than 'writing' a 20 page PowerPoint is because the narrative structure of good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what's more important than what how things are related.
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