I tell people that I feel a bit like Harry Potter, tucked in that little cupboard under the stairs at the Dursleys. This newly scrambled environment that working from home now represents. There's no small irony in the fact that my primary abode now has to serve as a substitute for my second home, which is my color suite at MPC's studios in New York. I think that is the green pill, the pill that is some strange concoction, or hybrid, of two worlds-a rabbit hole laced with routine. It's challenging, but it offers some unexpected rewards as well. The reboot routine is a hybrid of home life and work life. Even as I'm writing this, grappling with how to convey my thoughts of this world we are now in, I can hear my wife singing "I can sing a rainbow" with my 2-year-old in the next room. Well, we've been in this routine reboot months now and to say I'm still getting used to it is not even close. Essentially the new normal is something that is different than what we are used to but is routine enough that we get used to it? It's like a reboot, that Hollywood marketing term for using a good idea but starting on a fresh piece of paper. I've got a problem with the phrase "the new normal." Can we workshop that before we move forward? The new normal. Well, we've been in this "new normal" for many months now. Sure, this might be a subtle color RGB reference, but I think the green pill is important because without it you're just not seeing the full picture. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." -Morpheus, The Matrix "You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
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