Sorry. This is crazy weird, and I hope interesting to some.
I play, now and then, an on-line game "World of Tanks". This 15 v 15 live battle is composed of tanks from 5 classes: lights, mediums, heavies, tank destroyers and artillery (self propelled guns).
I play "lights". I like them. They get speed and vision (or more correctly, camouflage) though lose armor and gun damage. A light's job is to provide "intelligence" to "light up the map" for the team's more armored and dangerous tanks.
There is a loose parallel between this game and this newsletter. The readership is obviously not a collection of tank destroyers or heavy tanks in an on-line battle. However, as has been so resolutely displayed by established media for the last 20 years, information is warfare.
So, I'm just playing a light tank in an ongoing information war. My role is to zoom around the information war battlefield and provide to you what intelligence I find.
I have no expectation of your responses. I’m just the messenger.
PS: I am a very poor player of the on-line game. You decide how poorly I play in the real-world information space.
Epilogue
As mentioned in the audio augmentation of the recent editorial, I think a little mathematically. I like patterns. This article just highlights a pattern I spotted. It contains no useful information. Its intention is to encourage you to also enjoy spotting patterns.