This week's newsletter comes to you from aboard a Thameslink service bound for London Kings Cross. I’m back in Britain for a brief pause before setting off for Japan in just a few days.

A focused week has slipped by in an instant, spent preparing the inaugural Monograph edition of the newsletter. It reminds me that, no matter how carefully we clear our calendars, tasks unfurl to fill the space they are given.

Still, I never mean to leave you without a weekly newsletter. And so this week, I have three timely updates.