{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "It's weird the things you don't notice until you acquire a relevant skill. Like it wasn't until I started taking flying lessons...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187856113258/", "html": "<p>It&rsquo;s weird the things you don&rsquo;t notice until you acquire a relevant skill. Like it wasn&rsquo;t until I started taking flying lessons that I noticed small planes in the air, then I noticed all of them.</p><p>I&rsquo;ve said since I learned to trim trees I&rsquo;ve noticed in the ones I walk by. Just now I was walking down the sidewalk and got the overwhelming urge to pause and look up.</p><p>It took me maybe two seconds to pick up but there was a branch, a thick one, that had been sawn free from the trunk but was still hanging there tied up in the adjacent branches.</p><p>And it was a narrow gap where it was sawn and not well lit at all and I didn&rsquo;t notice it consciously but apparently I have Trap Sense for trees now</p>"}