On Monday night, I spent an hour staring at my laptop screen. My goal was to find a column idea that was not related to the coronavirus update.

I eventually just shut my laptop and went to bed.
So on Tuesday morning (deadline day), I loaded my laptop into my backpack, prepped a food bag with lunch and snacks for a 12-16 hour workday, put in my ear buds and hit “shuffle” on my workout playlist, and hiked to the office.