55. What Changes Will Stick When the Pandemic Is Gone?

Whenever I hear the phrase really annoying people, I just immediately join that tribe in my head. I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Stephen Dubner. And you're listening to listening to No Stupid Questions. Today on the show, what changes will we see in post-pandemic society?

You've always been living the pandemic lifestyle, Stephen. Also, would you take a confirmation bias vaccine? I might want to be a conspiracy theorist at some point. And this is going to be a real problem. So Angela, once the pandemic and the shutdown fade away, what would you say is one permanent change we will see in the life of Professor Angela Duckworth?

Well, what's leaping to mind is that I have a nonprofit called Character Lab. And during the pandemic, our small team moved out of our beautiful office space and everybody started working from home. For the first few months of the pandemic, I thought, well, isn't this a shame? And now we have decided as an organization that we will never go back to business as usual and that we will be a remote first organization.

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