The most powerful politicians in the world — being fed crisis data by their state information machines — lagged behind, failing to see, to think, to understand the pandemic dynamics. Data flowed free, for everyone to see. But not for them.

I left the Academy of Arts 25 years ago and I mostly practiced design since — with a short (by comparison) intermezzo in advertising. I spent a lot of time in 17 out of those 27 for hiring designers so I think I qualify to give some advice.

In 2018 alone I boarded 50 flights and spent more than 200 hours in the air, enough to circle the globe 3.4 times. So my friends started asking me — do I have any travel advice? Well, here is what I learned.

A few days ago Aneta published — in her article Colaj 2018 (in Romanian, available on Facebook, Medium, Blog) — her thoughts on the year that has passed, a small year, even though it was, paradoxically, a full year. I would argue that 2018 epitomizes a whole decade of busy irrelevance.