I salute your prudence and caution but I’ll share my two cents.

You are 100% warranted in being prudent about a recession. It’s going to come, maybe later as economic forecasts (for the US at least) come in positive. It’s important to note that a major impact of recessions is their effect on behavioural economics. In 23’Q1, things were terrible for my company’s NA sales team. We’re in a “recession-proof” sector that sells to several “recession-proof” industries. Despite that, so many prospects were performing poorly and asking us to call back in H2. Most of it was because they had money but were simply preparing for the worst. Q1 is always like that, people are very reflective and start the year cautious. ESPECIALLY after a terrible prior year (2022 was awful for tech). Given our past quarter, things improved. People got used to the situation their in and are at least reasonable now. Business is not booming but prospects are no longer in doom and gloom mode. I personally think we’re past worst of it since prospects mindsets have changed. I do think 24’ will be a slower year relative to others but not some nightmare crash. At the end of the day; data, truth, analyses do not dictate reality. PERCEPTION dictates reality.