Julia Smaldone

Editor's note: Maximilian Weigl, strategy director at 72andSunny Amsterdam, collected several hundred personal perspectives about what our post-pandemic future will look like on Day One, the first day after the crisis. Here are some excerpts from that project. • "The way we were forced to stay inside, and it didn't immediately work out, is the same way will I come out of this. Treading lightly and carefully. We were asked to avoid people, now we can hug again? It will be weird.

I'm wearing an oversized orange scarf as a dress. Dolly Parton plays while I check the growth of my sourdough bread starter and hang another Christmas ornament on the kitchen hutch. I've brought my partner to the bedroom three separate times to show him the way the sunlight hits the floor. Have I lost my mind? Maybe. But maybe I'm going sane. Creativity sane. And it's pretty exciting. For the first few weeks of this quarantine, I did what is expected of me.

For the past five Sundays, my 9-year-old daughter and I have been watching The Last Dance together. Of course, being the "classic Indian dad" that I am (my wife's words, not mine), I've been taking the opportunity to have plenty of conversations about work ethic, focus and leadership. The average run time of a 50-minute episode is about two hours in the Bhatt household. But hey, I get to impart leadership wisdom from the GOAT, and my kid gets to stay up late. It's a win-win.