Is Mixergy ignoring the virus?

I’m going to include conversations about the coronavirus in upcoming interviews, but I’m intentionally limiting it.

To explain why, I recorded this story about what happened to me as a podcast listener when I listened to a day’s worth of corona talk. I want Mixergy to be an island of relief and personal growth, in the middle of a very real crisis.

Hey, it’s Andrew Warner. And I think in some of the interviews that you’ve been hearing me publish on the podcast feed . . . Not some, in none. You’ve not been hearing me talk about corona in the podcast feed, and maybe it feels a little bit like I’m disconnected from the problem. And I thought I’d just address it. I’m not at all disconnected from the problem, beyond the worries about what’s going to happen to my family health-wise over the next few months, weeks, days, who knows when.

There’s also the day-to-day distraction and chaos of the whole thing, can’t go to work, kids can’t go to school, San Francisco is in a lockdown mode where we’re asked to stay home. So all of us are in the house together with my wife trying to get work done on the computer in our bedroom and the kids trying to . . . I’m trying to teach them. And then we alternate and she tries to teach them while I try to work. And...

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