It's shockingly funny how often we fail to see the tiny details that have been right in front of us for years.

I had a taste of this phenomenon while learning how to typeset my book Kokoro.

I've read hundreds of books over the last decade, and not once have I noticed that each paragraph of a page or a section, except the starting one, has its first line slightly indented like this:

If you haven't noticed this minor detail yet, try flipping through a couple of pages of a book you have near you.

When I first learned about this rule, I did the same. I flipped through five or six books to check whether this rule was a standard I'd never noticed.

Indeed, it was.

This made me think about how much of our surroundings and the tiny details we miss when running on autopilot.

A social experiment on Twitter demonstrated another example of this phenomenon:

Almost no one, including me, noticed that the keypad had "Come up with your own tweets" written on the keys rather than the usual "ABCDEF".

It's the job of our brains to filter excessive information around us to help us focus on what we need at the time. Otherwise, we would be bombarded with too much information to get anything done.

But sometimes, breaking out of this autopilot mode and noticing minor details in everyday things around us can help us discover delightful details hidden in plain sight.

Try it. Pick something up and pay attention to noticing all its details.

You might find something absurdly apparent that has been escaping your sight all this time.

Now, let's move on to the rest of this newsletter issue: