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@letters_to_the_wanderer
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817subscribers
+54 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002681815572 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @letters_to_the_wanderer |
| Created | Between 1 March 2025 and 31 July 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 7 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/letters_to_the_wanderer |
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 77% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 01:19 | 817 | +25 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 08:17 | 792 | +15 |
| 2 Sept 2026, 13:26 | 777 | +3 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 05:46 | 774 | +3 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 04:43 | 771 | +6 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 16:16 | 765 | +2 |
| 7 Aug 2026, 12:20 | 763 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 08:17 | 763 | first reading |
16 posts held, back to 15 February 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 16 posts for this entry, the most recent from 29 July 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
510 reactions across 16 posts, in 7 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 48.8% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | 249 | 48.8% | |
| 👍 | 153 | 30.0% | |
| 🕊 | 51 | 10.0% | |
| 🤔 | 33 | 6.47% | |
| 🗿 | 16 | 3.14% | |
| 👏 | 7 | 1.37% | |
| 🤯 | 1 | 0.196% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 16 of the 16 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 510 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 16 most recent posts we hold, published 15 February 2026 to 29 July 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
A Compass, Not a Map Part 2: What to point the wanting at Some philosophies, like Buddhism and Stoicism, offer a similar conclusion: stop reading it. The Buddhists (in my limited understanding) went after the needle. Craving is the root of suffering, so still it, let the wanting go. The Stoics went after the reader. The needle points at things outside your control and settles nowhere anyway, so why organize your lif…
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A Compass, Not a Map Part 1: Why we can't stop wanting Our brains are the tool for finding where to go next. But strictly speaking, they work like a compass, not a map. While a map shows you the destination, a compass only gives you a direction. You can follow the needle your whole life and never arrive anywhere, because "north" is not a place. If you walk all the way to the magnetic north pole, the one spot on Ear…
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Stay in the Race Compared to other animals, humans are not physically impressive. We are much slower and weaker than many animals. We also have no claws, no fangs or fur to protect us. We are slower and weaker than the things we’d want to eat AND the things that want to eat us. By every obvious measure, we should have been lunch. However... Over long distances, no animal on Earth beats a human. We couldn’t sprint …
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It’s been a very busy month, but I made sure to complete my first on-campus session of the executive program at MIT Sloan. I’d done the earlier modules online, but being there in person was different. I met brilliant classmates from all over the world, and we swapped stories about our lives and our organizations. (Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.) Looking forward to bein…
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Most people don't fail their dreams. They abandon them long before that. There are million good reasons why it doesn't make sense for you to start working on the life you dream about. You accept your circumstances thinking that one day you will have the time, resources and perfect opportunity to finally get started. I don't think that time will ever come. You will grow bitter and resentful that the world is not work…
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The Anthill Although we are social creatures, historically we never socialized at this scale. Our nervous systems evolved for the size of a band, a village, a tribe (groups of at most 150). Today we live in cities of millions and watch the lives of billions. No mammal lives in groups this large or this interconnected. The closest analogy is an ant colony. We weren’t built for this. We weren’t meant to know what’s h…
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Dubai Chocolate and LA food trucks It seems the only way we understand that war is bad is by how much it hurts our wallets. I get the journalist’s instinct. The pain and suffering of fellow humans feels distant; the small sting of paying more for dessert is immediate. But this framing deepens the cynicism. Every horror, no matter how grave, gets measured in economic outcomes. Words matter. They make us care less. …
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“Coffee should not be drunk in a hurry. It is the sister of time, and should be sipped slowly, slowly. Coffee is the sound of taste, the sound for the aroma. It is a meditation and a plunge into memories and the soul.” -Mahmoud Darwish Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982.
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“That was the year, my twenty eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.” Joan Didion, "Good Bye to All That"
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FT is right to run this. People care about their pocket more than about death and destruction elsewhere. Maybe the only way to get people to want the war to end is to tell them their already overpriced dessert is about to get more expensive.
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In the US, gas prices are a barometer of political decisions. The consequences of policies are judged by subsequent changes at the pump. Very often, news articles run photos of the latest numbers on those giant roadside boards. In Uzbekistan, it’s the price of meat. We even got the LED signs to match!
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Some people know they are at war when their cities turn to rubble. Others know they are at war when they pay a little more at the pump. If you are paying for war with your wallet, be grateful. Pray for those paying with their lives and the lives of their loved ones, and hope they live to see it end.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 16 posts we hold for @letters_to_the_wanderer. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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“Letters to the wanderer” (@letters_to_the_wanderer), 817 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/letters_to_the_wanderer.
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