Forecast: Cloudy, but with silver linings
- Publish Date: August 10, 2020
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- Publish Date: August 10, 2020
Anyone who’s been to an optometrist will recognize the test – if not its name, retinoscopy – in which the practitioner places different lenses before one’s eyes, to arrive at and simulate a winning prescription. It’s an apt analogy, I think, for viewing our world during these extraordinarily tumultuous and troubled times.
Viewed through a public health lens, the world is, at present, a fairly frightful place thanks to the Coronavirus. Snap on the weather lens? We see an equally jarring landscape, as successive hurricanes ravage our southern coast, wildfires return to the West Coast, and tornadoes rip through the Midwest. Political lens? Whatever your leaning, its a pretty unsettling picture, rife with division, vitriol, and both civic and social unrest. Economic lens? Equally bleak, with business closures, unemployment, and our nation’s GDP all at historically low-water marks.
It’s enough to make many folks squeeze their eyes shut, like kids recoiling from the scariest parts of a horror movie.
As tempting as it may be to put blinders on — and at the risk of being a Pollyanna — there is one lens we as entrepreneurs, participants in the tech industry, and job-creators must consciously don if we’re to remain open, competitive, and emerge from these troublesome times: The lens of optimism.
Seen through this lens, there are silver linings on some of the clouds that abound. Here are just a few positives for nimble and enterprising EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services) companies, PCB (Printed Circuit Board), and PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) manufacturers.
COVID-19 has clearly and dramatically demonstrated the need for:
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