Remember the name of the kid who bags groceries. Tiny detail, enormous signal.

Whose name you bother to learn is a map of who you consider worth your attention. Most people sort this without thinking, remembering the useful and forgetting the rest, and everyone on the wrong side of that sorting notices. Using someone’s name is a small act that says you registered them as a person and not a task.

Learn one name this week that you have been managing without: the person at the desk, the one who cleans your building, the new kid two seats over. Use it out loud. Keep using it when nobody is watching you do it.