Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Bermuda Triangle mysteries, obscure sorrows, phantom obligation, game theory, internet radio, and why kindness matters now.. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-02-01-26/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Velocity and attention becomes a war, habits hinge on the single stick, life insisting on 1x speed and thriving through experiments instead of failures.. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-25-26/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Defining the problem, curiosity tours, intellectual rigidity, choosing boredom over optimization and valuing time more than money.. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-18-26/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Resilience isn't built by avoiding failure.. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/when-it-falls-over/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: "I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee." — Terri Guillemets. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-7-25/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T. S. Eliot. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-14-25/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: '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. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-21-25/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: 'Coffee – it’s the lifeblood that fuels the dreams of champions!' – Mike Ditka. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-12-28-25/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: "So why would you want to go there? -Because I never have. That's why people go places, isn't it?" - Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) in The Truman Show. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/attention/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: "Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?" — Steven Wright. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-4-26/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: "Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?" — Steven Wright. #storytelling #leadership #til https://makoism.com/espresso-shots-1-4-26/

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: A checklist for trusting what’s real online, reclaiming agency, podcasts and TV, Taylor Swift’s neuroscience advice, and a case for leaving room for crazy. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Exploring polymathic craft, resonant AI stewardship, star-streaked skies, focus-saving rhythms, and the sparks that come from imperfect notes and curious loops. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Curiosity-driven rediscovery, playful renunciation, optionality wisdom, outsider-powered creativity, and spontaneous sparks from unexpected moments. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Rewired learning sparks, high-agency and purposeful friction, experience-seeking wander, 1978 spoilers and even even-number-loving math quirks. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Curiosity-led making, internet-age beginnings, reinventing your rhythm, story-rich imperfection, and catalyst-shaped creativity swirl. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: AI radio hosts and hype cycles, walking epiphanies, the eternal debate to archive or delete, UFO sightings, and the serious business of fun. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Fun isn’t the opposite of serious — it’s how we survive it. #leadership #storytelling #thinking #life2point0  makoism.com/are-we-havin...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: AI echo chambers, creative resistance, Newton’s hidden experiments, thriving through life’s waves, and music that stops you mid-sentence. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Orwellian clarity, enshittification, chatfishing chaos, the power of slowing down, analog rebellion, cloud meltdowns and GenX movies. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Diogenes-style simplicity, creative risks, subtractive simplicity, joyful exploration, chaotic collaboration, and the messy beauty of loving what annoys you. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: AI art angst, Taylor Swift fonts, aging gracefully in tech, the myth of productivity, reverse bucket lists, and a Dudeist reminder to chill. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Fake neighborhoods over airports, invisible numbers, anti-efficiency rants, reverse impostor syndrome, and Vonnegut’s late-blooming genius. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: building soulful radio, the science of caffeine superpowers, rediscovering books and curiosity, warnings from David Foster Wallace, and the quiet strength in failure. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: storytelling shortcuts, invisibility as strength, an overlooked hacker classic, time as currency, kangaroo ownership and shrinkflation in cake mixes. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Inbox purges, unlocking ideas by talking out loud, reverse centaurs, elicitation tricks, boredom as creativity’s spark and em dashes. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Pizza-powered crisis signals, sugar-coated summaries, sensory coffee rituals, an e-bike for the mind, and goodwill-infused conversations. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Subtracting stress, questioning the cost of yes, avoiding sync overload, nuclear reactor wisdom, and the glorious future of books. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: Smart quotes, screenless futures, bookmark-sized breakthroughs, sabbatical revelations, and a bean that rewards your focus. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

New Update 😂 @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: tech debt’s hidden layers to contagious emotions, abolishing time, friendship’s sunk costs, and the secret life of Gorton font. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here’s just a few drops that brewed up in this week’s Espresso Shots: designing a life from scratch, acting on sparks of inspiration, a patchwork of role models, and savoring the analog charm of tiny vinyl. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: a discover in zen gardens, deadline highs, what is are bridge jobs , vicarious stress and dancing robots. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

It was a paella night - we caught the crab; fresh mussels and clams from Westcott Bay, and some local shrimp. #sjilife #photography

Bummer to see Apple Intelligence (even cloud models) not available to Shorttcuts on WatchOS 26 beta.

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: The psychology of aging, memory shapes time, acoustics of influence, the art of doing less, and how quirks can become your greatest tools. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Yuck. Woke at 3:15a, started thinking about the day ahead and morning coffee. And once I start thinking about coffee, it’s over...

Been reading about Meshtastic, feels like a rabbit hole that could be interesting. #sjilife meshtastic.org

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: Why “just build it” is a trap, the upside of being pushed, and a strategic case for doing the opposite, tired startup tropes, tailwinds and when constraints become fuel. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: Curiosity filled AI collaboration, cosmic insignificance therapy, sun-fueled joy, pixel-soaked retro tech, and a 9-year-old’s unexpected wisdom on creativity. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Ready to start the trip home with a lovely 3:14 AM wake up... ... followed by the car service getting here at 4, but with a flat tire.

When your airport is so small, you get an Uno card as the pass on which plane to get on. #sjilife

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: Algorithmic advice, dopamine-powered attention games, why staying on the bus matters, what AI gets wrong, and why your brain loves novelty more than meaning. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: Sweet and sour candy, deleting your digital brain, design audits, unreasonable ambition, AI that augments as interns with amnesia, and the photo behind The Shining. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: Steve Carell’s wisdom, how to learn, quiet rebellion against burnout, turning jealousy into ambition, closed lists, and how a cult notebook brand wrote its own story. #storytelling #leadership #til makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: Creativity myths, pirate hiring, Jobs’ iconic speech, the cult of hard mode, mind-bending creativity lessons, cultural resets, and the world’s tiniest violin. #storytelling #leadership makoism.com/espresso-sho...

Here are a few items that brewed in this week’s Espresso Shots: Everest defibrillators, wisdom-loaded e-ink frames, glue work that powers great teams, ‘90s pop verse magic, and curiosity as the ultimate creative edge. #storytelling #leadership makoism.com/espresso-sho...

And tonight didn’t disappoint.. #sunset #photography #sjilife

Stunner tonight. #sjilife #photography #sunset

Bringing a small travel espresso machine with me: overkill. But having a proper espresso while traveling: priceless.