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S2: New Directions
Sifting through the professional development noise
An essay for paid subscribers on finding good professional development resources.
This path is much narrower, with tree branches reaching across. Or, it’s not a path at all, at least not when you first go in that direction. With every step you take, you pave it a little more for someone behind you.
📸 Photo Essays
For paid subscribers, photos from a walk and a letter update.
BTS
Welcome to my brain. Behind-the-scenes look at planning my season 2. For paid subscribers.
Exploring the tangents that coffee creates: essays and stories in culture, freelancing, food, and more.
It's a sign of anxiety! Some thoughts on procrastination and seasonal planning.
A photo essay for paid subscribers of my farmstay in Davis, CA. It has a lot of photos of goats.
Lessons from personal experience.
An essay for paid subscribers about the old adage.
Summing up 12 lessons I've learned over 12 years of self-employment.
For paid subscribers, a look behind the scenes of how I organized season 1.
A reflection on Season 1: Community Three months ago, I opened the season with an essay on what community means to me and for paid subscribers, five lessons I’ve learned along my community-building journey. I had ideas for stories and interviewees, and intentionally, I did not do a lot
A short letter to paid subscribers about my brain fog.
Coffee can be both & some more thoughts on private equity in coffee.
Unstructured thoughts, two days after Expo, for paid subscribers.
The stories of three industry veterans who were hired into companies backed by investment money and founded by non-coffee people. Their community ties were extracted, and then they were laid off.
This is a continuation of the In Focus interview sent out last week. It features Suneal Pabari and Grant Gamble, co-founders of Leaderboard, the worldwide mystery coffee game. Paid subscribers receive bonus interview content when there’s too much to fit into the first part.