I keep seeing these two odd time effects in my life and wondering if they are connected.

The first is that my work-life has become either extremely intense – and I don’t mean long hours, I mean intense brainwork for maybe a week – that wipes me out – and then the next is inevitably slower and less intense. Basically everything gets bunched up together. I feel like this has something to do with everyone working from home, but I’m not really sure how to explain it (though it reminds me of my time at Joost where we’d have an intense series of meetings with everyone together every few months, because we were distributed. But this type is not organised, it just happens). My partner pointed out that this might simply be poor planning on my part (thanks! I’m quite good at planning actually).

The second is something we’ve noticed at the Cube – people are not committing to doing stuff (coming to an event, volunteering etc) until very close to the event. Something like 20-30% of our tickets for gigs are being sold the day before or on the day. I don’t think it’s people waiting for something better. I wonder if it’s Covid-related uncertainty? (also 10-15% don’t turn up, not sure if that’s relevant).

Anyone else seeing this type of thing?