Pandemic posting
The pandemic lockdowns have resulted in increased levels of shit on the interwebz. This is not least in part due to me posting more. Much more. But only in terms of quantity, not quality. Fortunately, no one reads this garbage, so no innocent brain cells have been harmed in the course of the fiasco.
Last year was the first in which my annual post count exceeded 100, but I'd barely started. This year's just blown 2020 away! It was also the year in which this blog's total post count passed the 1000 mark. Given the quality, this is not a proud boast.
But there's more
I have been very unmotivated about work this year, doing the minimum to not get my sorry arse fired. But I don't think that it's solely related to the pandemic and remote working.
MegaCorpCH closed its offices in April last year, and I've been working remotely since then. The sustained increase in output, if that's not too grandiose a term for my drivel, really took off a year later. Bearing in mind the epidemiologists' maxim that correlation does not imply causation
, my posting frequency over the last two years is still enlightening, in view of the fact that my line micromanager joined the company in January of this year.
The difference in monthly posting frequency between the periods 04.2020–12.2020 and 01.2021–12.2021 is statistically highly significant (p=0.0038). That probability value means the chance that the two are the same is less than 0.4%; i.e. not very likely.
