Espresso Shots 3-8-26
Zen motorcycles and David Lynch's Star Wars to Earth's secret soundtrack, philosopher thinking, MacGyver creativity, and the river of endless scroll.
growth
A collection of 37 issues
Espresso Shots 3-01-26
zagging creators and omoiyari to curating people, Sunday self-meetings, NYT games dominance, and satellites enshittifying orbit.
Espresso Shots 2-22-26
Writing sharpens thinking, incremental growth, intentional scarcity, omnipotence and cognitive debt, and how organizations get sick.
Espresso Shots 2-8-26
childhood dreams, remembering what we do, looking for what's true, addicted to being useful, better meetings as secret weapons, and the 500-mile email mystery.
Espresso Shots 1-25-26
Velocity and attention becomes a war, habits hinge on the single stick, life insisting on 1x speed and thriving through experiments instead of failures.
Espresso Shots 1-18-26
Defining the problem, curiosity tours, intellectual rigidity, choosing boredom over optimization and valuing time more than money.
When It Falls Over
Resilience isn't built by avoiding failure.
Espresso Shots 1-11-26
Café solitude, gray area magic, the devotion-friction matrix, reinvention on demand, rewilding digital presence, BowieNet's prophetic legacy, atmospheric computing, and the Moylan Arrow's unexpected brilliance.
Espresso Shots 12-28-25
'Coffee – it’s the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champions!' – Mike Ditka
Espresso Shots 12-21-25
'You did it! Congratulations. World's best cup of coffee. Great job, everybody. It's great to meet you. Hi.' - Will Ferrell as Buddy The Elf
Espresso Shots 12-7-25
"I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee." — Terri Guillemets
Espresso Shots 11-16-25
"Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat." – Johann Sebastian Bach
Are We Having Fun Yet?
"Well, I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun." -Chevy Chase as Clark W. Griswold in Vacation
Espresso Shots 10-12-25
"If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." ― David Letterman
Espresso Shots 10-05-25
"Without my morning coffee, I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach
Espresso Shots 9-26-25
'I don’t need an inspirational quote. I need coffee.' -- Unknown
Espresso Shots 9-21-25
'The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.' - Andrea Illy
Espresso Shots 9-7-25
"If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." - David Letterman
Espresso Shots 8-31-25
"Coffee is a language in itself." - Jackie Chan
Espresso Shots 8-10-25
"Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach
Espresso Shots 8-3-25
"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
Espresso Shots 7-20-25
"Life without coffee is like a broken pencil – pointless" - Unknown
Espresso Shots 6-29-25
"We met at Starbucks. Not at the same Starbucks, but we saw each other at different Starbucks across the street from each other." -Meg Swan (Parker Posey), Best in Show
Espresso Shots 6-22-25
"Even if you tell yourself 'Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot.' Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot." - Chuck Palahniuk
Espresso Shots 5-25-25
"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Espresso Shots 5-18-25
"Life’s too short to drink cheap coffee." - Unknown
Espresso Shots 5-11-25
"Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach, 1732
Espresso Shots 5-4-25
"'Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you." - Jeff Bridges
Espresso Shots 4-26-25
"People like to cry over spilled milk, but I cry every time I spill my coffee." ― Anthony Liccione
Espresso Shots 4-20-25
"The most dangerous drinking game is seeing how long I can go without coffee." - Unknown
Espresso Shots 4-13-25
"More espresso. Less despresso." - Unknown
Espresso Shots 4-6-25
"Seven days without coffee makes one WEAK." - Unknown
Espresso Shots 3-30-25
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T.S. Eliot
Espresso Shots 3-23-25
"Decaf? No, it's dangerous to dilute my caffeine." - Unknown
Espresso Shots 3-16-25
"A yawn is a silent scream of coffee." - Unknown
Espresso Shots 3-9-25
"Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure." — Napoleon
Holes
"I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself." - David Bowie