4 weeks ago, I saw nobody wore mask on the street and very few at the store. Today when I went grocery shopping, everybody wore mask. To keep social distance, Trader Joe’s limited 20 people in the store so 1 out then 1 out and people waited patiently and quietly outside in distance, by the …
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Simplification, Creativity
Covid-19 closed many places and activities yet limited choice also simplify our lives and forced us to be creative, e.g. find alternative way to exercise, have more time with family and to read…There is a bright side to everything.
Beauty Everywhere
I walked around my neighborhood on Tuesday and noticed colorful drawing of flower, rainbow, heart, and house on the pedestrian path with big letters “Stay Home, Spread Love, Stay Healthy” by the neighbor’s girls. It put a smile on my face. Even in the midst of Covid-19, there are simple joy and beauty everywhere. I …
Do the ‘Care’ Thing
I talked to mom last night. Due to Covid-19, it has been a consistent topic. Mom told me the new ‘face mask’ distribution policy and now people can send masks to their close family (within 2 levels) oversea. They sent me a package by express mail because the now the regular air mail takes 20 …
B-day Celebration
I booked the flight to Arkansas months ago to celebrate my birthday and complete one of my bucket list to visit all US states yet Covid-19 made me cancel the trip/ vacation. The silver lining are (1) because of Covid-19, airline waived the charge of cancellation (1 year credit allowance) or change of booking and …
Minimalist to be the Maximalist
I read from Peak Performance that highly successful people, e.g. Barak Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs have very simple/ consistent wardrobe to minimize decision making on trivia things and save the energy to focus on more important things. A benefit of working from work is that I don’t need to make wardrobe decision now. I …
Humble and Grateful
Many people, including myself had never imagined one day to wait in line for store to open and hope to get toilet paper in US. Yet it’s happening now… I went to Target at 8:20 (store opens at 8AM) and hope to get toilet paper. It was out of stocks last weekend when I went …
Work from Home
Working from home for 2 weeks now. I appreciate the technology and teamwork that enable this, more importantly, the trust behind that people will do the right thing. I think ‘trust’ is what makes a brand, company, country great*. I’m fortunately living in a neighborhood, on the front facing the main road so looking outside …
Reflection
We had a global all-hands town hall meeting. In the meeting, COO shared 3 numbers (3—4880—0) and asked everybody to guess what they mean. The answer was ‘in 3 weeks, we’ve moved 4880 to work from home (due to Covid-19), and 0 production issue. WoW, what an achievement and collaboration across-functions! COO then played a …
Humanity
I received an email from an old colleague/ friend in China who asked how I am doing as she saw the news of Covid-19 outbreak in US. She said her husband and children went to WuHen (1st outbreak/ most seriously infected area) for Chinese New Year. The outbreak ‘grounded’ them there for 50 days and …