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What I Learned From Trying to Cut My Own Hair
Business and consuming will be transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic. We'll be outsourcing fewer decisions and mastering more things for ourselves.
Hair today, gone tomorrow?
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Writing to shareholders this week, BlackRock Inc.’s chief executive officer Larry Fink ruminated on how business and society will be reshaped by the searing experience of the new coronavirus:
I had a similar epiphany this week while trying to cut my own hair — it turns out my regular $30 haircut isn’t as essential as I’d thought. Preparing a meal for my family later that evening made me think that eating out or getting dinner delivered isn’t as rewarding as home cooking. Right now the do-it-yourself version also feels a whole lot safer, and probably will do for a while.