The British food retailers have done their annual thing where they collectively decide that November is the time to weaponize your feelings and call it "festive marketing." And look, we're not complaining. We're never complaining. Because this is the one time of year when watching advertisements becomes a legitimate cultural event, and frankly, that says everything you need to know about Britain.

Bérenger September 1970 - March 1995 December 1st comes back each year like a riptide. World AIDS Day. For most people, a reminder. For me, a face. Bérenger was born in 1970. We grew up as brother and sister. He died in March 1995, at twenty-four, in a world where treatments were still only promises. The disease took him before AZT for everyone, before stabilized dual therapies, before the triple therapy that would change the course of lives.

LinkedIn reminded me this morning that it's been exactly one year since I stepped into entrepreneurship. A whole year. And honestly? It...