Menu

Subscribe

Free email notices whenever a new article is posted. And unsubscribe anytime.

They Used To Grind the Coffee in Starbucks

They Used To Grind the Coffee in Starbucks

Howard Schultz wrote a long memo last week that was described in a Wall Street Journal article about customer disenchantment with Starbucks. Schultz is the company’s chairman, and he warned fellow executives that all of the efficiencies brought on by their rapid growth has diluted the experience, and that they […]

Talk about Bad Karma!

The AP included a story today about a salesman has a pattern: he tells his bosses that his son has cancer or has died, and then goofs off for months. He’s done it three times, and this last episode landed him in court, he has to repay $50K. “Lancope Inc. […]

Looking Out from the Cafe

Looking Out from the Cafe

The Daily Hampshire Gazette interviewed me about the newly renovated cafe. But they didn’t send a photog and reporter Cris Carl told me she was only writing a short little piece, and didn’t shoot any photos. So here is what would be in the paper if they included a photo.

Stokin’ the Star Makin Machinery at the Cafe

Jacylyn Stevenson is one of our favorite writers who is writing a feature about blogging for Business West Magazine. I was happy to speak with her again, she wrote a detailed story about the GoNOMAD travel website when we moved into our first office in town in 2004. I told […]

Breathe….Plenty of Room to Breathe in the Cafe

The cafe expansion is expanding people’s minds as our physical space has grown. It feels like now you can come inside and stretch your hands out by your sides and not still not feel crowded. Space, it seems, is good. I visited with my friends, brothers Darren and Sean Pierce, […]

The Wows Have it in the Expanded Cafe

Even though I didn’t hit the pillow until about 2 am, it was up, up, up even before little early riser Nathan (but after his dad Francisco who plowed out of the driveway at 5:24 am)to return to the cafe. I was groggy but excited. I was excited the way […]

My God, it’s ALMOST time for Coffee Again

Here I sit, it’s 12:51 am, and we’re FINALLY finished (almost) renovating the cafe. Jim Taylor, my project manager, has gone home with Barry, his able-bodied assistant, Joe trundled off to bed after a long battle finally won reconnecting the internet…Liz finished her mopping and putting away around 12:15, and […]

I Bet This Guy Wishes He Spoke French

The Nigerian Times had a story about the value of speaking more than one language tonight. “A fast-thinking pilot, with the help of passengers, fooled a gunman who had hijacked a jetliner flying from Africa to the Canary Islands, braking hard upon landing then quickly accelerating to knock the man […]

"I Got People" is an Excellent Ad Campaign

Joe O’Rourke and I used to enjoy reading Bob Garfield’s ad reviews in Advertising Age when we both worked in ad sales at the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Here is Garfield’s review of a new ad campaign. “Millions of Americans are intimidated or overwhelmed by this annual [tax prep] chore, and […]

You Can Do a Lot with 12-foot Ceilings

Progress, progress, the cafe is moving ahead and we can’t wait to show it all off on Tuesday. Last night I joined about 70 of my neighbors at a fundraiser on Crestview Drive. This is a wide street with underground utility wires (the mark of a high rent district) located […]

Building a College in Kabul

Johannes Brongers wants to help. So he’s going to Afghanistan to do his job in a far less tranquil environment. In June, he leaves with his wife Janet to live in Kabul and help run the American University in Afghanistan. There are only 58 students now, they hope to expand […]

«‹ 265 266 267 268›»