Salesforce
London’s Calling took place as a completely virtual event and was very well received. You can read more about it at my blog post, but I find the combination of pre-recorded content with the speaker on a chat channel to be the best route for breakout sessions in this pandemic world. Ideally the listeners would have a bit more time to digest and ask questions before skipping off to the next session, but I can’t see too many conference organisers wanting large gaps.
I’ve been sent a copy of the latest book for Salesforce architects by the publisher to review. I’m about 1/5 of the way through - as you can imagine it’s not something you can skim! Thus far the content seems solid and I’m hoping to finish it in the next week or two and get a review out.
Work
Up to now I’ve mostly been concerning myself with the remote working aspect of the new normal. It turns out that the pandemic is threatening the five day week now, although mostly it appears to be the case for white collar workers involved in technology. As someone who grew up watching programmes like Tomorrow’s World predicting we’d be working shorter weeks with masses of leisure time, I’d quite like to see some of it come to pass before I retire :)
Other
There’s an interesting storey on Wired about the rise of Clubhouse - I hadn’t made the connection that Clubhouse timed the launch of their beta to almost perfectly coincide with a large chunk of the world going into lockdown. While it was obviously a coincidence, it was an amazing piece of luck that by the time everyone was being starved of human contact they had something perceived as new to offer. I also read a good Twitter thread predicting that Clubhouse will struggle to retain users and content creators.
I’ve been busy blogging this week, about:
Continuing to harp on about the cadence of this newsletter, I’ve decided to add to the post as I read items that I find interesting, and then send it out once there’s five to ten in there. I wonder how long I’ll stick with that?