Some post-expo thoughts
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.
🔎 In Focus
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.
A detailed Q&A with the co-founders of Leaderboard, a worldwide mystery coffee game.
Exploring the tangents that coffee creates: essays and stories in culture, freelancing, food, and more.
Bonus interview content with Kate Brune, a tanjennts mid-season update, and a mental health update.
Do you really need to build that community, or can you instead help one grow? I talk with the founders of Being Tea and Color of Coffee Collective.
Bonus interview content for paid subscribers, where we discuss building relationships and sales.
When is it sales, and when is it community? Can it be both?
Five key lessons I've learned over the last dozen years of helping build communities.
A reflection on what the coffee community means to me.
As part of Season 1's topic about community, I am opening this post for the entire season to collect answers and host a discussion space around "community." There are two ways to contribute to this discussion: 1. Log in and comment on this post. Feel free
How my community theme is developing and some recent wins.
Overcoming overthinking If gold stars were awarded for thinking, my overthinking brain would have stacked up boatloads of stars by now. It’d be an entire galaxy. I started reading a book on social anxiety because I don’t know much about it: where/how does it start? What are
On Monday, I had—what felt like for the first time this year—space in my brain to dream. I’ve set the end of Q1 as the end of my marketing services, and it’s both thrilling and terrifying. It means a loss of income, but a gain in
đź“ť Notes from Jenn: There's been a refresh of sorts here. The tl;dr is that I've moved tanjennts over to run on Ghost. It'll take some time for me to get things organized, updated, and sorted through. Thank you for your patience. If I
No, this is not a fishing expedition for one