A couple of years ago, during an online meeting, I used a virtual background of a library. A colleague jokingly asked me, “how many of those books have you actually read?”
The question stayed with me — not because it offended me, but because it revealed something deeper: for some people, books are decoration; for others, they are companions.
For as long as I can remember, reading has come naturally to me. By the time I was still in single-digit age, I already had a small personal library — one that has grown steadily over the years. I have also lost books along the way, including some rare volumes nearly a century old. Losing them hurt more than losing money ever could.
Books, for me, are not a performance. They are how I think, question, recalibrate, and sometimes change direction entirely.
Unsans exists to reflect that relationship with books — and to help others find books that don’t merely inform, but change how they think.