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On Tonika's Visceral Adventures, a commenter just dubbed him Math Crawford, which I thought was apt and a great mnemonic device for that single t! I'm halfway in and SO impressed that you've kept Math to a single topic! Our convos generally prove his point about infinity for the number of times you can segue and then segue from a segue.

Seriously, I love hearing Mathew geek out on math. We've talked about base-12, which he has a fancy name for (duodecimal?). I never thought I'd love numbers but playing with them in my head has become one of my favorite things. I'm being honest here, I can't do it when I'm trying to get to sleep because it's too exciting.

And I was to words the way Mathew was to math, sneaking into the adult section of the library (which I could walk to safely from a young age) and reading mythology then Updike, Oscar Wilde and all of Shakespeare by eighth grade. I was insufferable!

I love Mathew's title, The Art of Solving Problems, and looking at it as pattern recognition--something we share in this conspiracy space, I think. Tonika had written, "naming the problem specifically is half the solution," which I've worded as 'If you get the question right, the answer is self-evident.' That seems to go with how Mathew looks at math.

And last, glad he didn't let you get away with that comment on the Taliban. One more day, I more psyop down! Delighted to find two of my favorite people in conversation!

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You both feel like brothers to me, and I look forward to experiencing the cosmic convergence of Mathew’s big brain with Ahmad’s big heart 🧠💓

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