👀 A coffee a day…
👀 A coffee a day…
#440 | … keeps afternoon naps at bay
Hi there,
Despite all the good mindful movement can do for your brain, it just can’t do what caffeine can.
Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks at a yoga retreat in Goa. After a relaxed breakfast, I’d delay my midday nap with a cup of coffee. Not very good coffee, mind you. But I promise I wasn’t a bad carpenter; it was the tools. Broken French presses. Coffee that was ground too fine. A machine that produced burnt-tasting coffee.
A few days in, a new friend and I decided that enough was enough. Something had to change.
We are by no means coffee connoisseurs (the friend in question was briefly a barista a decade ago, though he claims that doesn’t count), but all we wanted was a decent cuppa.
A conversation about South Indian coffee filters and a trip to Mapusa market quickly yielded our solution. Finally! Coffee we could actually drink, even enjoy!
I'm still no coffee snob, but I’ve stopped taking decent coffee for granted. Making coffee is a whole art and science, and there’s no one better to tell you all about it than James Hoffman.
Honestly, the best thing about Hoffman is how big of a coffee nerd he is. His YouTube is amazing and super informative – that goes without saying. But did you know about Tens, Hundreds and Thousands, which he co-created to make coffee-related products (puzzles, ceramics, even ugly Christmas jumpers) that he couldn’t find anywhere? Or Coffee Jobs Board, a recruitment platform (which he's now sold) targeted solely towards coffee-related jobs?
I don’t think there’s a coffee-related endeavour he hasn’t tried his hand at. Blogs, magazines, podcasts, consulting, coffee sensory kits, competitions, books… he’s done it all. What might he come up with in the future? I don’t know, but I don’t think I would be surprised – the man is capable of doing anything (as long as it’s coffee-related, of course).
What is surprising to me, however, is that Dolly hasn’t shared this with you in all this time. Well, now you don’t need him to.
Go forth into the world of coffee. Haffun.