Lessons Learned from 3yrs of COVID

It’s now been 3 years since the world was disrupted by COVID-19. How has the tech industry been impacted, changed, and altered? 

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SHOW NOTES:

• Eps.499 - Did COVID change tech?
• Eps.552 - Developing New Habits in COVID
• Remote Work Should be (Mostly) Asynchronous (HBR)

GOOD PREDICTIONS, BAD PREDICTIONS, AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

• How long the pandemic would last
• How much this would accelerate cloud adoption
• How efficient remote work would make companies
• The future of in-person events vs. virtual events

GOOD HABITS, BAD HABITS, AND LESSONS LEARNED

• Too many companies assumed that late 2020 through early 2022 would be the new normal 
• The cloud providers all grew very fast, but none of them launched industry-changing new services, and have since laid off people
• SaaS services did not figure out how to be more profitable, and have laid off people
• Remove work hasn’t become more efficient, and it’s not creating new management / teamwork / collaboration challenges
• We’ve created very unusual and awkward human interactions, and tried to normalize them
• A new round of layoffs and economic uncertainty will end up creating another new set of behaviors - still TBD.

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