With a future characterised by exponential change, technology kinks, and crises that serve as vehicles for fast-forwarding the impacts of change, it is fortuitous that a group of genuine experts with wide and deep backgrounds in education, music, and other industries has written about their experience during the COVID-19 crisis, including the immediate adjustments they were required to make, the division of those adjustments into ones that are transitory and should disappear when the crisis is over and others that will likely be more permanent, and lessons that can be learned from the crisis to make us be better prepared to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities that will be presented by future crises.