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How Permanent Are Our COVID Social Life Adaptations?
Cafe Society is Maxwell Social’s weekly magazine on the intersection of community and society — an anthropological look at the underpinnings of what makes the world tick, written by David Litwak (@dlitwak) and the Maxwell team. Maxwell is building a new type of social club.
A favorite quarantine parlor game has been to guess what changes will be permanent and what will quickly snap back to normal once we open up. It looks like NYC Open Streets is going to be permanent.
And it’s highly likely many if not most companies will have to adapt to remote work — for every person who is clamoring to come back into the office there is someone else who spent quarantine working from Barbados.
But whether not Miami is actually a thing remains to be seen.
In my opinion the most interesting version of this armchair philosophizing is discussing what parts of our social life that went digital will stay there. Conferences, dinners, chats and more, previously the realm of in-person, all transitioned online out of necessity— how many of them will snap back to the way things were in the before times as we open up?
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David (@dlitwak) & The Maxwell Team
