#00025 - The reckoning at the D&D

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Claude Monet: Rain at Etretat

Hello readers,

I’m writing this from Venice, where my morning lungo macchiato comes with a side of canal fog and the sound of delivery boats hitting the dock at dawn. My schedule here is reversed—daytimes are for Venice, evenings for New York—and I’m running on clams, caffeine, and adrenaline. Massive week ahead.

We’ve got an…