The Last Barrier Fell

How the removal of friction turned an old human behaviour into a modern crisis.

So I woke up this morning and started having a pretty bad feeling about this year. It’s 8 days in and I’m already feeling tired of the news. I guess, in the back of my mind, I was sitting in this quiet little state of: “Hey, maybe this is the year stuff starts stabilising and getting better.”

I was very, very wrong. We all saw what happened to Venezuela,…