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1 Idea Newsletter · Aug 16, 2026

The Things We Stopped Seeing

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Manoj Radhakrishna · 1 Idea Newsletter

Most things I read on the internet disappear almost immediately.

I remember opening them. I remember thinking they were interesting. A day later, I could not tell you what they said.

Then, every now and then, you find something that makes you stop scrolling and sit with it for a while.

This was one of those.

Here is a small test. Turn on a light. Fill a glass of water. Put on a song.

Now try explaining that sequence to someone from 1880.

The light alone would have been enough to make their evening. Water arriving clean through a pipe in the wall would need some convincing. And the idea that you could choose almost any song ever recorded, from a little box in your living room, would sound completely absurd.

Ordinary Abundance made me look around the house a little differently.

Open it on a desktop if you can. It is one of those pieces where the format is part of the experience, and it is worth taking your time with.

Read it here: Ordinary Abundance

That’s it for this week.

Manoj

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