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Keep Calm And Carry On Better With The Safety Stack
I think we’re all feeling a bit dumbfounded by how we took the feeling of safety for granted before the pandemic. That odd sensation you get when watching a movie where nobody’s wearing a mask in a dense crowd is real. Or, at least for me, the newest member of my “unfavorite dreams” circus — the one where I can’t graduate from high school, the one where all my teeth fall out — is now the one where I’m exposed to some terribly deadly virus. It’s a vulnerable time for many of us. And after the pandemic lifts, we’re all hoping its impact will one day disappear.
Having moved into the safety technology stack (the collection of technologies that keep us safer both physically and digitally) at the end of 2020, I find myself lucky to work on what really matters today: the pursuit of feeling safe again. I’ve learned a lot about what I don’t know, which is literally the foundations of the safety stack’s raison d’etre. We are unsafe when we do not know that bad things are happening to what we care about. On the other hand, we are safe when we get out of the way of the bad things.
COVID-19 turns out to be the kind of uniquely bad thing that has had a prolonged, universal impact. We’re all in the middle of trying to figure out when, or even whether, it will eventually come to an end. Meanwhile, what has become obvious to me is the generational…
