The Business Plan
Most evenings these days find me writing, revising and polishing a business plan. I want to start a coffee shop. A roastery. I’ve long had a passion for great coffee, and some day I’d like to devote a significant chunk of my time and energy to it. My...Papua New Guinea, Mile High Plantation, 00-01 Crop
What do you get if you blend the earthy body of a Sumatran with the mellow-sweet aroma of a Central American and the zippy briskness of a Kenya AA? Actually, you’d probably get the essentials of quite a lot of house blends. But you may be surprised to learn that you can find all of these characteristics in a single bean… a coffee from Papua New Guinea.

A bonus offline shopping story!
A bonus offline shopping story! On a recent trip to a real-world bookstore I found myself wandering in circles to find books related to typographic design. Books about Adobe Illustrator were in the “computers” section, on a shelf that was pretty much...