Chinky New Year!

Loittering in Bangsar between work, market research, business networking, RELATIVES, and the ever essential #carnap. Ping for meetups.

After conversations with...

3 industry players
2 some-time customers
1 potential interviewer
1 friend of an ex, and a potential business counterparty
1 ex
2 never-dates
3 cousins and multiple other relatives later

... I'm home, and gearing down for the morning shift. Kaching.

I miss this depth of social activity. Maybe I need to seriously consider a shift into business development roles.

Coffee; Social Media; Technology

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/01/29/blue-bottle-investment/

You have to understand that in the world of old media, pubs and coffeeshops were the social apps of choice for many people. This is a big B2C (retail, inelastic FMCG) play for firms specialising in new media like GOOG and TWTR. Every concentric sphere of marketing communications and customer relationship management for a traditional coffeeshop stands to be improved by simple tweaks utilising new media.

As for the benefits to coffee - automation in non-specialty coffee doesn't improve non-specialty coffee. But increased qualities of robotics (and machine phenomenology) in specialty coffee brewing will soon accelerate adoption and shred costs (probably not prices) over the next decade (because growth potential is high). That would free up the coffee nerds to do more valuable work, like growing, sourcing, and dialling in.

Linger

A lot of loitering with co-workers in the fashion industry after work. Not productive, but a good rest.

Several hours later, following a bit of jiggling the input variables, there was one final decent cup of Mandheling with a lingering sweet hazelnutty aftertaste.

Working with colleagues, I've pretty much figured out that we can brew (1) any dose, (2) at any non-stuck grindsize, (3) for whatever temperature and duration are required to melt all the sugars, oils, etc., (4) without over-extracting into roasty/bitter/shitty territory, (5) just by messing with tamping pressure, (6) possibly at the expense of higher extraction-yields.

Done with daily documentation. Need to crash before interviewing a prospective college student tomorrow. LOL.

The next day:

- took an interview
- gave an interview
- chatted with acquaintances about job hunting
- played itinerant recreational job hunter

Managed to take a nap at the reunion table. Most productive chinky new year evahhh...