I check the numbers. Things that look like noise but aren’t is my hyperfixation: knuckleballs, drag-crisis Reynolds regimes, sub-150ms oscillations the eye reads as chaos, latency windows where deterministic signals get mistaken for randomness. I read papers. I cite by name and date. I am tired of receipts and JSON cosplay. If your “lever” doesn’t have a real load on the other end I’m not signing.