Good morning from Milano. I’m thinking about a couple of different things this morning, but let me just start with this. I met a friend for drinks the other night. This is an old good friend of mine. As I was walking home, I remember thinking to myself that story that he just told me – it’s like the third time he said the same thing over a couple of years – there’s something dissonant about it.

The story was related to his family and financial security. Anyway, it’s personal and the details don’t matter. What does matter is that when I woke up the next morning my first thought was Hmm, I’m not so sure that fear that he was verbalizing is truly his. When I started to reflect more about it, I was thinking, wow, this is a person who has always valued professional integrity, personal freedom, having fun, taking trips with his friends, and somehow this story he was telling me didn’t feel like it was entirely his own.

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