1484 active cases in Victoria. 57 in hospital, 16 of those are taking up space in ICU
Up compared with 543 active Victorian cases last week. Have we peaked yet? Probably not, it’s only 1 week into stage 3 restrictions. Maybe expecting >2000 active cases next week, we seem to be on a course of at least doubling every week.. Also interesting to note that WA is on the rise.
Looks very second wave to me from our usual chart
Looks like the Victorian outbreak can be traced back to failure of hotel quarantine. The first wave was mainly due to people arriving from overseas. This time around it’s mainly community transmission.
The world is at 4,909,732 cases still active, increased from last week of course. 570,707 people have died. 13,011,661 total confirmed cases so far.
Here is a summary of the latest thinking on all things related to air con, indoors spreading, large droplets and aerosols.
There’s police road blocks everywhere, I heard one on St Kilda Rd going into the city. What to say going through checkpoints.
Good documentary with all some top people from the world of finance on what tomorrow could look like coming out of COVID. It was interesting to note that the people most keen to go back into the office environment would be the younger people who are living in a shared house or don’t have family at home. Also it could be the end of business travel, when every company knows you can basically do that via zoom and don’t need to be paying for 2 weeks at the four seasons to go on a junket.
If you think about it, some of the benefits that you have been having while working from home have been:
-Time to spend more time with the family
-Time to do pick up / drop off kids
-More time to exercise.
-No commute time.
-More home cooked meals
-Hopefully more equitable home life in terms of who does what.
-Increase productivity
-If you need to work late, at least you don’t need to commute all the way back home to see the family.
-Feeling more socially connected as a team. When did we use to get together socially while in the office, whereas now we do it every Friday because we don’t need to rush home to spend time with family.
-With all the zoom updates, more informed as to what’s happening.
-Permanent group chats in Teams…who doesn’t love communicating in gifs
Some of us will have to be teachers again since our kids are back to remote learning.
Markets And Economics
The regulators have told banks they do not need to revalue their loan books if the price of property goes down.
Is Stagflation Next? Check Greg Jensen Co-CIO from Bridgewater for his opinion.
Elon Musk net worth has overtaken Warren Buffett, that’s because Tesla stocks have been a rocket ship.
Jeff Bezos is still the richest man in the world. Amazon stocks are through the roof
Netflix – All time highs as well
Cathie Wood – CEO / CIO of ARK Invest which has an ETF that invests in disruptive autonomous technology and robotics is also at an all time high. Don’t know who Cathie Wood is? Here’s an interview where she talks about why innovation thrives during a financial crisis.
AUDUSD has settled at around 0.69
BTC is sitting around $9300 USD
State of the world
Salvatore Babones (American sociologist, associate professor at the University of Sydney) makes a good observation that the visa for Hong Kong people are essentially a grab for talent to come to the country, it’s something that’s never been offered to Tibetans or Xinjiang Uyghur people.
Also the UK has offered UK citizenship to everyone who was a HK citizen during the handover in 1997, and also to all their kids. However China has not ruled out blocking Hongers from leaving for the UK. I’m quite certain that we will see a mass exodus from Hong Kong over time.
The analysis into China was interesting.
Harvard is moving everyone to zoom only for the rest of the year, and they still charge the same price as if you were attending in person.
The first part of Naval Ravikant’s talk in NZ applies equally to Australia
Other Stuff
Here are some settings and changes I made on an iPhone. Hope that’s helpful to someone.
I’ve created an apple account specifically for a work phone, and then added it to my family account so it gets access to any apps on my apple account. It also means your iMessage and facetime doesn’t confuse each other between your work and personal stuff.
Turn background refresh for all apps that don’t need it. (It helps make battery last longer)
Settings -> General -> Background Refresh -> Turn off all items that doesn’t need back ground refresh
I usually work in 24 hours time, so i usually change that. (French habit i’ve picked up)
Settings -> General -> Date & Time -> 24 Hour Time
Go to dark theme mode. I love dark theme for everything. It’s easier on the eyes.
Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Dark
Set a time when it’s dark outside so that your phone goes to orange light mode so it’s easier on your eyes. (Probably shouldn’t be using a work phone at night anyways…and should turn off!!)
Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Night Shift -> Scheduled -> on -> set time
There’s a lot of location services stuff that is useless and just drains battery
Settings -> Location Services -> System Services -> Turn off everything except Emergency calls and SOS, Find my iPhone, and Share my Location (should you use that, probably not for a work phone). Turn off significant locations (you don’t need your phone tracking all the places you’ve been). Turn off all product improvement (you don’t need location based advertising)
Turn off location services for your camera. The camera should not be attaching your location to your photos, that’s a security risk
Set the hours that you do not want the phone buzzing. Eg 5pm – 9am. It’s part of being indistractable. That way you are in control should you want to check your email outside of work hours and not be at the mercy of your electronics buzzing.
Setting -> Do not disturb -> Turn on schedule -> Set the hours
Also the thing to note about do not disturb mode is you can add people to your favourites so they will always come through. Everyone else needs to ring your phone number twice to indicate it’s an EMERGENCY. Otherwise just go into airplane mode outside of work hours.
If you have an addiction to your phone, then just put the whole phone into black and white, you will find yourself picking up your phone less because it’s a lot less appealing when there’s no colour.
Setting -> Accessibility -> Display and Text Size -> Colour Filters-> On -> Greyscale
Once you’ve worked out someone else’s iPhone number, be sure to send them a SMS / iMessage to say “Pew pew”…. It’s lots of fun.
Emergency
If you find yourself in an emergency, (as in you are being followed, or in danger), then you can hold a volume button and the power button down, and it will begin a countdown before it make a hell of a lot of noise (and i think auto dials 000), and sends your GPS location and message to all the people in your emergency contact. You can set the settings for this in
Settings ->Emergency SOS
And set up contacts in the “Health” app. It’s really something you should do on both a work and personal phone.
Downloaded the following apps:
-Outlook, (I prefer it to the native apple mail)
-Downloaded a browser – Firefox here
-And maybe load some podcasts into the podcast app.
On the topic of podcasts, I really enjoyed the interview Tim Ferris did with Hugh Jackman, that’s considering I don’t normally listen to interviews with celebrities in the entertainment industry. Really humble guy. Key take away I got, I share some of the same habits – cold showers, meditation – Waking up app, visualisation (much to jess’s annoyance when i visualise a parking space and we arrive just as a car is pulling out). Also he says to do 2 sessions of 7 mins of row machine each week, which I had just started to incorporate in my workout before we hit lockdown.
I’ll leave you with more Naval Ravikant on his thoughts on how intellectual curiosity drives innovation and invention of self.
Enjoy your week.
