 Good morning, John. Just got back from Indianapolis last night where I got to see you and our family and your dog. And after weeks of obsessively checking cloud forecasts, despite the fact that I could do nothing about it if it was cloudy, we did indeed get to see the dark glowing hole in the sky. And I did have the experience that people talk about of being totally overwhelmed. And here's what I think it is. I've been alive for 43 years and I've seen the sky be a few different ways. You know, sunsets, darkness, clouds, normal, very bright sun. But it's pretty like limited number of ways for the sky to be. And the sky is a big part of what I see. It is weird for after 43 years for the sky to do a new thing. And that's really the big difference between like 99% and 100% totality. It's like at 99% it's basically the sky doing its normal thing, but dimmer. At 100%, it's a whole new thing. We were with a bunch of friends and family and hearing other people's reaction to it was really wonderful for me. There was a lot, a few folks who are not like me. And so they didn't know everything about what was about to happen. And at the end of it, they were like, Hank, I did not know that was going to happen. But the most common thing that almost everybody said was, can you imagine what it would be like to have that happen if you didn't know it was going to happen? And like, I try to do my best to remember that I have no idea what it would be like to be a prehistoric human, except that I know what it's like to be a current human. And it's probably not as different as we imagine it. They're doing jokes. They're having friends. They're getting their hearts broken. They're thinking that their kids have it so good these days. All the normal things that we're doing was just like more suffering mixed in. But I think the thought that's inspiring the thought of like, can you imagine what it was like for people who didn't know is, I sure am glad I knew that was going to happen. Otherwise I'd be pretty freaked out right now. And I think the thought that inspires that thought is a deeper one that's mostly being unsaid, but is being experienced by the subconscious, which is, I'm pretty freaked out right now. Both me and Catherine were like nauseated afterward, which I don't really know where that came from or what it is, except for like, the sky did a different thing. But the feeling I was most left with after the eclipse, 100%, weird one, angered that it ended this thought, which isn't a rational thought, but it's the one I had. That's not fair. I was looking at that. And you know that you can't get it back. Like, that's it. And it's so fast. So much anticipation and totality ends in a blink. Now, unrelatedly, Monday was also a big deal for me for a totally different reason than I was trying to ignore while this was all going on. Journey to the Microcosmos, our channel about like the beautiful microscopic world that we are constantly surrounded by, but never pay attention to, is closing down. It's going to make a bunch more videos, but we're wrapping up production. And it's sad. We tried a bunch of different ways to make the show work financially. And there were times in its history where it did turn a profit for a little bit, and then it would go back. But like most of the time it was produced, it was produced at a loss for the full four years that we did it. And of course, I feel like somewhat responsible for that outcome. But over the years, it's gotten extremely clear that when it comes to like videos on the internet, nothing is inevitable. People's individual decisions decide what exists and what doesn't exist. And some of those decisions are mine and they're people at my company, but some of the decisions are people at YouTube or they're people watching YouTube, deciding whether or not to click on a video, to watch it, to share it, to support it in some way. This is going to sound dumb, but things that can exist might not, because of people's decisions. And yes, that does make me worried about our collective decision to give away so much of our power to algorithms to make decisions for us. Because if things exist or don't exist because of people's decisions, then it's the people decide it. But if things exist and don't exist because of algorithms, then it's the platforms deciding. And oftentimes the platforms don't even know how the algorithms work. So very much, it is no human's choice whether or not something exists or does not exist. And that starts to get freaky. Like a total solar eclipse, Journey to the Microcosmos was a beautiful thing that I had never seen anything like before. And then I saw it, and that was amazing. And then it was over. And then I got mad, and it didn't seem fair. Unlike the eclipse, I am somewhat responsible for it ending. I don't know how much, but also unlike the eclipse, I'm somewhat responsible for it existing at all. So that's something. I think it's super important to notice that some things are inevitable, like eclipses. And some things are only there because of human choices. Things like microscopy videos and free educational resources on YouTube that everyone helps make exist by buying Crash Course coins and supporting Crash Course on Patreon. And things like internet stores that give away all of their profit to charity. Because that's another thing that happened this week. Good.store relaunched a new design along with its new logo, which I think is cute, including our little friend Dot. That's Dot. I often think that people from outside think that things like Good.store or Crash Course or like the iPhone are inevitabilities. But let me tell you, when I see it from the inside, when I see like Nerdfighteria supporting these things, people at DFTBA and complexly working on them, they feel like they exist through sheer force of will. Because a store that gives away 100% of its money to charity is not in any way easier to run than a store that doesn't do that. It's harder. It is very much not on inevitability. Everything that we do is temporary. That doesn't stop me from being mad when they end or feeling like it's my fault or I could have done something different. Or just constantly worrying that I'm never doing things quite right. My point. Eclipse's seem impossible but are inevitable. Whereas a lot of things in our lives seem inevitable but are very nearly impossible. Whether that's like the airplane that flew me here from Indianapolis or this community of people that have made tons of things that basically shouldn't exist, exist anyway. None of this is inevitable. In fact, the more you look at it, the more you realize that it was very unlikely that any of this would happen at all. Any of it. Which makes it to me anyway extremely precious. Which does kind of make it like hard for me to look at. Like I almost need eclipse glasses to look at how special the last 15 years have been. We have the opportunity to keep doing more things that are basically impossible. If you want to be the first to know about them, sign up for We Are Here, our newsletter. There's a link in the description. And if you want to go watch some of my favorite microcosmos videos, I'll put a link to those in the description as well. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.