He turned and walked into a log-walled guard hut that I had not noticed before.

NEWYORKER: The Kingpins

Seeing what Ato Ghebray and Ato Kahsay (the first two Irob men who tried placing stones to catch the soil) were doing motivated me to start trying it myself, but if I had not noticed the things I mentioned just now, I would not have tried checkdams based only on these two men s examples.

UNESCO: Title

Of course, I had not understood or even particularly noticed these changes at the time.

NEWYORKER: Gravel

Watching his choreographic work, though, I noticed some not so entertaining tropes: Ashford had a tendency to present his female dancers as types vamp, ditz, and so on rather than as full-bodied characters.

NEWYORKER: Secrets and Lies

And I would never had met him, or even noticed him, had he not mentioned Iain M.

FORBES: Why Dying Author Iain M. Banks Has My Undying Gratitude