On my Mind
Learning to Dance
I have found it hard work this week to drag my attention away from the demeaning nonsense of the goings on in Westminster to more constructive subjects. When I eventually got a grip and let things settle, my attention was drawn to the idea of the "dance music" that exists in the tension between the patterns we seem to be settling into as the pandemic recedes, and the increasing definition of the challenges we are heading into.
There feels to be a clear tension as we discover that the habits we thought we could fall back into are no longer reliable. The frustrated manager struggling to get people to back to the office. The irritated employee wondering why we should when working from home produces what is needed and suits us better. The uneasy awareness of the impetus of the forces driving price increases, the previously reasonably efficient travel infrastructure shredded by layoffs during lockdown, and here in the UK the re…
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