My strange, sleep-deprived week hobnobbing with the global elite

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It started with a mysterious slack from our editor-in-chief, Jamie Heller: Can you talk now? It was the kind of urgent message you never want to get from your boss' boss. What did I do? Am I in trouble? Is she laying me off? I scoured my brain for all the ways I'd probably disappointed her and the correspondingly appropriate ways I could apologize for those offenses. Then she called me to give me the news: She wanted to send me to Davos in January.

I've known about Davos...