I worked in commodity logistics for more than twenty years, and somewhere along the way I started to feel like a one trick pony. So I thought hard about what else I’m actually good at, and the answer was books. Reading, and talking people into reading. That’s how a one trick pony became a two trick pony, and how this shop got its name.
Those years also cost me something I didn’t notice until it was gone. My evenings went into a screen, and I’d manage four pages before falling asleep. There wasn’t one book that brought me back. It was just the slow work of getting the habit again, and it was worth it. A book asks something of you that a feed never does: your attention, your imagination, your willingness to sit with an idea rather than scroll past it.