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Work · March 12, 2026

Bookbits: Curated Short Reads

Read classic non-fiction without commiting to a full book.

What it does

I kept seeing the same recycled AI-generated 'wisdom' everywhere, motivational quotes stripped of context, book summaries that are just summaries of other summaries. Meanwhile we have thousands of years of actual time-tested ideas from people like Sun Tzu, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca just sitting there. So I built Bookbits. The idea is you're reading the real words, not someone's watered-down interpretation. Would love feedback and curious which classical books you'd want to see added next.

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