Espresso Shots 3-15-26
Claude Code, phantom fluency, gut instinct, block universes, and the noble path of building things for each other.
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A collection of 35 issues
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.
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 02-01-26
Bermuda Triangle mysteries, obscure sorrows, phantom obligation, game theory, internet radio, and why kindness matters now.
Espresso Shots 1-18-26
Defining the problem, curiosity tours, intellectual rigidity, choosing boredom over optimization and valuing time more than money.
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 12-14-25
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T. S. Eliot
Espresso Shots 11-23-25
'What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.' - Henry Rollins
Espresso Shots 11-02-25
'I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.' — David Lynch
Espresso Shots 10-26-25
"Coffee is the answer, but I don't know the question." - Unknown
Espresso Shots 10-19-25
"But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. New York has great water for coffee." - David Lynch
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 9-14-25
"Coffee! Because anger management is too expensive." – Unknown
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 8-24-25
"My doctor told me to give up coffee. But I told him, I’m a writer, not a suicide bomber." – Jerry Seinfeld
Espresso Shots 8-17-25
"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?" - Cassandra Clare
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 7-27-25
"I never laugh until I've had my coffee." - Clark Gable
Espresso Shots 7-20-25
"Life without coffee is like a broken pencil – pointless" - Unknown
Espresso Shots 7-13-25
"A yawn is a silent scream for coffee" - Unknown
Espresso Shots 7-6-25
"Everybody should believe in something. I believe I’ll have another coffee." - 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 6-15-25
"I'm staying. I'm finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee." - Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), The Big Lebowski.
Espresso Shots 6-8-25
"May your coffee kick in before reality does." -Unknown
Espresso Shots 6-1-25
"I need a coffee to go with my coffee." - Zooey Deschanel
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
52 Things I Learned: 2024
"You will not laugh! You will not cry! You will learn by the numbers! I will teach you!" - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket