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Covid-19 mental health check-in
Jake:
Hey Jen, I feel for you - I'm thankful my kids are not toddlers any more at this time - it would be much harder...as I imagine it is for you.
Ben, good to hear that you're in a high spirits and generally optimistic - you can help the rest of us cope :p
Mike, a good view helps - my new work area and view below - those pictures are from a few days ago, because we have snow on the ground again today.
Micah, keep us posted. I hope that it is nothing serious.
Jake:
My anxiety is still relatively high - there is a feeling in the pit of my stomach that this situation will get much worse before it gets better. I actually made a run to Chicago yesterday to grab the rest of our supplies. My brain is telling me that I am over reacting, but my gut says other wise. So far my gut has been pretty spot on from the beginning of this thing - but there is conflict within me.
I hope that the news coming out of China is true. And I hope our run on this is similar and that within 4-6 weeks we will be back to normal.
Jake:
one other thing that is not helping is that I keep thinking about my folks and grand parents in Poland - my parents are in their 60's and my grandfather is almost 100 - and the pessimist in me thinks that if something would happen, I would not be able to be there for them because of the travel ban.
Mike:
Yesterday and today have been hard to focus on the really heavy thinking tasks. My new work space has more distractions (some awesome like squirrels, cats, and birds and others not so much like leaf blowers) but really I just can't seem to focus.
Yesterday we decided to delay the release of our new site for a bunch of reasons. It is 100% the right call and the rational part of my brain is totally on board. The other part is a kid throwing a tantrum because he doesn't get to show off his new toy. And, with the shift I need to quickly spin up new work for the programmers which requires a lot of thought. And I just can't.
micah:
I hear you on the productivity/focus issues of working from home.
I've been fairly good at doing it in the past (pre the anxiety-of-early-2019 debacle) but with this job, I'm kinda forced to use my laptop and not my home computer...and at the office I have 2 big and 1 giant monitor... I need to set up my home workspace better because its hard to work from a 14" laptop with its lame keyboard and crappy trackpad. Plus, it's easier to get distracted... obviously with kids...but even when they're not being annoying, the temptation to procrastinate is really hard to fight
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