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A Pilgrimage for Book People
Reflecting on a family tradition / Cross-posting on the occasion of issue #100
Mar 13, 2023
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What it feels like to be in love | #73
Re-sharing this fan favorite on the occasion of issue #100
Dec 27, 2025
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Let me hand-write and mail you something. | #99
Collaborate with me on the next thing I publish here.
Dec 22, 2025
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Do the weirdest thing that feels right.
May 9, 2023
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I have a new face.
Aug 15, 2024
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You're not Simon Sarris.
Dec 20, 2024
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Confronting the Void | Review of The Stranger by Albert Camus
Sep 8, 2023
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I was selected for a $100,000 O'Shaughnessy Ventures Fellowship to empower used bookstores with AI.
Jun 20, 2025
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Simplicity, Expertise, and Bullshit: Being Taught vs. Being Convinced
Jun 29, 2023
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Some things are worth preserving. | #98
Christmas in the stacks
Dec 13, 2025
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Starting in one hour: Charlie Becker and Rob Stephenson on InterIntellect
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Sep 18, 2025
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One Month of Building the Used Bookstore of the Future + Things I loved in July
Charlie Becker Letter #97
Aug 8, 2025
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Help me read my way through the history of the novel.
CBL #96 | A short essay followed by a very long list
Jul 31, 2025
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Fumbling Toward Truth and Beauty in Used Bookstores
CBL #95 | A dispatch from a Sunday at the store
Jul 24, 2025
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I was selected for a $100,000 O'Shaughnessy Ventures Fellowship to empower used bookstores with AI.
CBL #94 | Big Update on Life & Work
Jun 20, 2025
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The Art of Changing No One's Mind
This chronicle of Charlie Becker’s Facebook comment section redemption arc is exactly what I envisaged when I first floated the idea of ‘Touch Grass…
Published on Soaring Twenties
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Jun 19, 2025
This is not an About page.
CBL #93 - Some thoughts on thinking/acting, naming/doing, and where this blog is headed
Jun 12, 2025
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A Second Chance At Chasing Dreams
Maybe this time I'll actually get to use my autograph
Published on The Subtle Shift
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Jun 9, 2025
Chelsea is not a metaphor.
CITS #92 | May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025
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We don't have time, we are time. | Friday Footnotes #4
Footnote #4 is based on a passage from 4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
Apr 12, 2025
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Sonder, Sobriety, and Abstractions | Friday Footnotes #3
Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reading and reflection meet real life.
Apr 5, 2025
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