Lowe.

A fine little thing happened this past weekend.

I’ll briefly set the scene: She had some books to pick up at our local library, and I’d agreed to tag along. When we got there, I randomly thought I’d do a little vanity search, and see if they had a copy of my latest book.

And, hey. Look what the hell happened. ¹

You probably can’t tell from the mask, but I was beaming. (And crying a little, sure.) I’ve been incredibly fortunate to spot copies of You Deserve a Tech Union on bookstore shelves. But somehow, this felt like a different kind of milestone. When I wrote the book, I hoped it’d be as widely accessible as it possibly could be — and I sincerely, wholly love that there’s at least one copy in my local library, freely available to anyone with a library card.

In fact, Jessamyn West kindly noted that my little book’s apparently in over two hundred libraries, according to WorldCat. This is, as you might imagine, an entirely different level of overwhelming.

But anyway. I remain, as ever, just so grateful that this little book is out in the world. And public libraries are just the best, aren’t they?

Thanks, as always, for reading.

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Further reading

• You deserve a new book design.

  25 Mar 2025

  A peek into You Deserve a Tech Union’s new design, and the typefaces — and process — that made it happen.

• A new op-ed: on OpenAI and worker power.

  11 Dec 2023

  What happens when workers take collective action, and in an anti-worker industry?

• Mail, run.

  16 Aug 2023

  What else happened this week? Well, I wrote my first op-ed; also, I got some mail.

• Announcing my new book, You Deserve a Tech Union.

  20 Jun 2023

  I wrote this book for you, for me — for all of us. I hope you like it.