On this day, my UK friends are being put on SIP (Shelter In Place), my brazilian friends are not but dying at alarming rate, US has elected a new president and small-earners are challenging Wall street, EU is being ridiculed into oblivion for its abysmal crisis management, and in my country, France, the strange game of the people asking impossible things to a leader who is promising just that, and failing to deliver, continues.

I guess the mental toll is on everyone. In my case, I read even more than on regular times to keep sane. My company, OSS ventures, has never been stronger, in part because the awesome team is working every day to make it stronger, in part because of sheer luck and timing - being in the digitization of operations, in 2021, is about the best place to be if any.

Strange times we are living in. Old know-it-alls are tanking companies (read a piece about GE in the NYT, it was enlightening) and refusing to acknowledge the new world, while youngsters are trying their best to replace the economy, with varying levels of psychopathy.

In those not-so-troubled-but-a-little-troubled-anyways times, Jules Michelet "Histoire de la Revolution" words : "Les temps faibles ne comprendront plus comment, parmi ces tragedies sanglantes, un pied dans la mort meme, ces hommes extraordinaires ne revaient qu'immortalite".

We are on the verge of those times.

Let's build.