The Bridge Between The Pandemic And The New Normal

WordPress.com (the hosted version of the WordPress open source project) sent a newsletter with a writing prompt for this month. It was more of a word. The word was bridge.

At first I shrugged it off and went about my day. But the more I thought about it, I realized we're on a bridge right now. Both in business and in life in general.

For more than 2 years, we've been in "pandemic-mode" with Covid-19. Now that the cases have dropped and we're learning to live with this "new normal." We're bridging between what we knew as life for the past 2+ years to some semblance of what it was like prior to March 2020.

We're bridging the gap in technology and learning how to both work remote and in person. We're learning how to conduct ourselves on Zoom calls and in coffee shops, sometimes at the same time. We're in a Venice-like world right now full of bridges, where we can choose which way to go.

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Podcast Of Note

Kevin Indig is a search engine optimization and marketing genius. He currently works for the e-commerce company Shopify. In addition to his amazing newsletter, Growth Memo, he has a great podcast called Tech Bound where he interviews some of the most interesting and often well known search marketers. It comes out monthly and is worth a listen.

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