Does anyone else have a trigger memory?
You see something in the news and your brain goes, shit, I've seen this pattern before. Then you start running through your memory. The movie from almost twenty years ago. The BBC villain in the crown. The three-step plan to break the country. And all of a sudden you're sitting there laughing at the coincidences, because the news is just the movie again, only nobody bothered to write a villain this time.
That was our week. Microsoft's email went down in 74 countries. The FAA grounded every plane in America. Nvidia lost 13 percent because the CEO's love life turned into a spy novel. And the whole time I kept thinking about a Bruce Willis movie from 2007 and a man sitting on a throne in the Tower of London wearing the Crown Jewels.
I wrote it up. The fire sale is on, everything must go, and nobody even sent a ransom note.