Missing the beat – again

Our lovely government has been inept at handling the largest public health crisis for a century. This is not a statement with hindsight but an expression of frustration for more than a year.

After having failed at setting up a comprehensive testing and tracing regime, our government bumbled the vaccine rollout: Lonza, based in Switzerland, proposed the government our own vaccination production.

While the ‘we don’t publish numbers on weekends, because also our employees need time off, too’ comment of the ministry of health is Asterix & Obelix level parody (‘It’s 5pm, tea time. We’ll be back to battle after that’) the rejection of the vaccination production kills people.

And that is just the latest misstep. With the next one already visible on the horizon: The social and economic upheaval is significant. And instead of starting a national conversation about healing, about rebuilding, about solidarity (yes that might imply higher taxes) you hear, well, Nothing…

But then, this is something most likely – and the proof points of the past 12 months support the claim – beyond their skillset. Most of the folks in positions of relevance starting with our government minsters have been politicians all their live or most of their lives.

In a country like ours a political career is still built primarily on risk avoidance (Any too extreme position will cost you the votes across the aisle to become minister… ). A crisis is pretty much the opposite. The nature of a crisis is confusion. It requires taking calculated and at times bigger risks to resolve it. Not an operational pattern any of our leaders is used to.

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Attitudes matter

Excerpt from an email conversation with a colleague of mine. It started with a comment on this video: Squirro App Studio.

Teammate: This video is no longer current.

Me: Can you explain to me what is not current here (except a portion referring to DSS instead of AIS)?

Teammate: Hi Dorian, That’s what I mean. It refers to DSS so it should not be distributed. Is my assumption not correct? Thank you.

Me: Dude, in a perfect world sure. Now we live in an imperfect world: So yes your assumption is not correct (until we have redone the video, btw are you volunteering?). 

Look I react to this because most recently people left and right have been nagging about things and that goes on my nerves: Startups by definition are not perfect. We told all of you (Remember me saying in your hiring interview: Startups are f**ing hard. Are you in for that?). 

Tesla produced shitty cars for the better part of the first 10 years of their existence (don’t believe me? check their resell value….). But they were after something (understand mobility in terms of software not hardware) and see where they are today…

Same with us: We understand the digital world in terms of insights not data. On that road things have edges. Life with it or else. Or to say it with Mark Watney in the Martian ““I’m going to have to science the shit out of this.”

So I would have preferred a comment of the type: ‘Use video with note only: still references DSS, will need updating’. Bonus points for saying: @author: Contact me, happy to help for an updated version.

You know like I do for requests you have for me. Instead of me saying: “Do your job, deliver results.”, I am a ping away and e.g. over the weekend help you to expand the SFDC playbook to make you successful. 

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Finally!

On Friday our government announced finally a switch to a comprehensive testing strategy. Finally…. (we suggest this approach 10 months ago…)

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mRNA basierte Impfungen verstehen

Brillianter Feed auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/WheatNOil/status/1339624815137722368

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Trump’s ungewollte Wirkung, Teil 2

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Die Renaissance des Mittelalters

Die Welt bewegt sich rückwärts. Wir sind wieder im Mittelalter angelangt. Es ist düster geworden. Die normative Kraft des faktischen wurde ersetzt durch die faktische Kraft des Normativen: Lügen definieren das neue Normal.

Wir alle werden Zeitzeugen des Untergangs von drei Weltreichen innerhalb unserer Lebensspanne. Die UdSSR vor 30 Jahren, jetzt die USA, in zwanzig Jahren China.

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Leistungen lassen sich anders denken

In der heutigen Handelszeitung gibts ein Interview von mir und Sandra von Helvetia:

Download als PDF: HZ 27_08_2020

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Trump der Frauen, BLM und sonst noch Förderer

Trump der grosse Förderer…

Mehr in Englisch.

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Corona: Das Ende vom Anfang

Die Coronakrise ist noch lange nicht vorbei. Besonders bedenklich, dass wir hier in der Schweiz noch immer kein umfassendes Test & Trace Programm haben.

Mehr in Englisch.

 

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Zeitzeugen

Wir werden aktuell Zeitzeugen von tektonischen Verschiebungen mitausgelöst und beschleunigt durch die Coronakrise:

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