2 Years Of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore
9 min readMar 27
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It is only from doing hard things, the Stoics said, that we learn what we’re capable of.
A little over three years ago, my wife and I had the craziest idea we’ve ever had in our lives: to open a bookstore in Bastrop, Texas.
Opening a small business is always hard. But opening a small business during a pandemic in a small town in rural Texas? To call it a…