Saw a headline about a place where commercial landlords have leverage and restaurants are filling up and I thought, where's that? The answer, of course, is Israel, where the vaccine rollout has gone rather smoothly.
My mind quickly ran to the conversations of the people in the restaurants, and indeed to conversations I am having with people in general. The great thing about talking to people is that you get a lot of really diverse information about the wide range of things people are doing in the world. Over the last year and change, we've all been doing more or less the same thing: sitting behind our computers, exercising, getting take out, watching stuff on Netflix, etc. The range of recent experience to make conversations lively has narrowed or flattened.
Which doesn't mean it's not still good to be talking to people. It just kind of means that you have to talk to people for longer for it to get interesting, and that pre-existing relationships where you've known people for a long time are much more fruitful than new ones.
In a sense, it's another constraint on idea liquidity, alongside the exodus from cities and the decline of face to face retail.
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