In a bold follow-up to last year’s “All In,” which may or may not have been taken for all its worth or neglected altogether, the proof won’t be apparent for years and years: I hereby declare this the year of “To Be.”

I know, I know, it’s so vague as to be interpreted as anything once the year is underway, so to clarify and also continually nudge my memory as to what I mean by it, I’m invoking a little Piet Hein: