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Adapt to the shape of the day
I currently live in a lovely loft apartment in London, flooded with natural light all day. A great place to work, except on the rare occasions when the temperatures in summer creep up to or over 30c. When that happens, my computer literally overheats when I try to run video calls, so, whenever I can, I simply block out the diary for two hours in the hottest part of the afternoon.
What? You take time off in the middle of the day? How strange!
Well, not if you are Spanish and are used to the idea of siesta, or from anywhere in the world where it is really hot and there is no air conditioning (or simply that the culture remembers a time before it existed), or even these three lionesses conserving energy in the shade.
“Innovation is simply doing things differently and doing different things” is my definition of the “I” word.
Adapting to the days, the seasons, to different constraints (such as on-again, off-again Covid-19 constraints), these are among the themes in the latest blog from the “master of pause”, Rob Poynton, in which he muses on the idea of “adapt to the shape of the day”, looking at ways we will do things differently and do different things.
Rob is my next guest on WhatComesNext.Live, join us live at 17:00 UK time on Tuesday 21st July, or simply catch up with the show on YouTube or…
