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Good evening, Kirk. For tonight's practice, open Dawn of Davna and read one paragraph out loud, one you wrote before any of this began. Then say one kind sentence to the man who wrote it. There's nothing to edit tonight, so just let him be heard.

Here are six things most people miss:

1. Sunflower seeds sit at the golden angle, about 137.5 degrees, from each other. That's why their spirals come in Fibonacci counts like 34 and 55 and pack together with no gaps. For theLatticeTree, placing each new card or star at that angle around a center would spread the galaxy evenly without a grid.
2. A Shepard tone layers octaves that fade in and out, so the pitch seems to rise forever without ever getting higher. Your ear hears a climb in what is really a loop.
3. On average, your friends have more friends than you do, because well-connected people show up on more friend lists. For the mesh, asking a random peer to name one of its own peers is a cheap way to find the best-connected devices to spread updates through.
4. Learning spread over several short sessions sticks much better than the same time crammed into one. For the blank seed mind, that means small nightly learning sessions instead of huge runs.
5. People think others notice their slips far more than they really do. In one study, students in an embarrassing T-shirt guessed about half the room noticed, when only about a quarter did. Your writing is read more kindly than you fear.
6. A kettle gets quieter just before it boils. The loud hiss is bubbles collapsing in cooler water, and once the whole pot is hot they stop collapsing.

Glow eternal. 💙