Something here was worth noticing.
Building Books, Beans & Things
Why We Are Making The One Thing Companion
A useful notebook should not help us capture more. It should help us decide what deserves to continue.
Books, Beans & Things
Find the one thing worth carrying forward.
Books, conversations, tools, places, experiences, and ordinary things can leave something behind. BBT is a place to notice what matters, follow where it leads, and carry the best of it into real life.
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The practice
Notice what matters. Carry one thing forward.Books, Beans & Things
Curiosity can begin almost anywhere. Pay attention. Name the one thing. Decide what to do with it. Follow the connections. Sometimes, take it one chat closer.
Discoveries
This is where curiosity leaves a trail.
Books are here. Coffee is here. So are tools, conversations, experiences, questions, places, and things that are difficult to categorize. They have one thing in common: something made them worth another look.
The BBT recommendation philosophy
Recommendations are Earned.
A product link should be the consequence of a useful recommendation, not the reason the content exists. In other words, carrying something means something.
Something here was worth noticing.
The BBT philosophy
Why Books, Beans & Things Exists
The internet does not need more things to consume nearly as much as we need better ways to benefit from what deserves our attention.
Worth Carrying
Some things earn their way here.
We encounter far more than we recommend. Worth Carrying is where you will find books, tools, coffee, ideas, and other things that have stayed useful after the first impression wore off.
Follow the connections
Curiosity leaves a trail.
A line in one book recalls a conversation from three years ago. Something learned over coffee suddenly explains something happening at work. A tool solves one problem and raises a much more interesting question. Follow the connections.
Read something. Notice something. Try something. Connect it to what you already know. Bring someone else into it. See where it leads.
One Chat Closer
Some things are better understood with another person in the room.
Not every question needs another article. Sometimes we need someone who knows more, someone who disagrees, someone who has lived it, or someone who sees what we missed.
One Chat Closer is an invitation to let curiosity move toward conversation—not necessarily so we leave agreeing, but so we leave understanding something a little better.