The Awesome Coffee Club

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

sca-nerd asked:

My coworker used to work as a barista and would make comments about how bad the coffee is at the office. I never understood this, as it tasted like coffee and all coffee tastes the same to me. Still, I wanted to support the mission of the Awesome Coffee Club, so I ordered a single bag of the Octavia to keep at home for when we would have coffee drinkers visit. I, of course, tried some myself.

Sir. My coworker was RIGHT. The office coffee is TERRIBLE. I finally understand what a good cup of coffee tastes like, and it tastes like awesome coffee. I can't drink the office coffee anymore. I am now on a mission to get our office to switch, but I'm not sure how effective I will be. Until then, I am bringing my own from home.

Thank you for promoting such an incredible product and cause. I wouldn't have tried if you hadn't done so much to show the ethics of sourcing and producing it. DFTBA.

I keep trying to tell people.

Do you think I would be an unpaid intern for anything other than the world’s best coffee that also happens to donate 100% of its profit to charity?

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Some Personal News

Hi.

For the last several months, I have been the CEO of dftba.com, the Awesome Socks and Coffee Clubs, and Sun Basin Soap. This happened because my brother Hank was the CEO, but then he got cancer. (He is now, thankfully, in remission.)

I have enjoyed getting to know the over 50 people who work on these projects, and learning from them about the challenge and fulfillment involved in making awesome stuff. I am immensely proud that together we’ve kept the ship afloat during Hank’s cancer treatment, even growing the company a little in his absence. I would not wish this experience on anyone, but I am still grateful for all that I’ve learned and the people I’ve been able to work more closely with.

However! This week is my last week as CEO, which means starting Monday I return to my DREAM JOB: Unpaid social media intern for the Awesome Coffee Club and Anti-Tuberculosis Propaganda.

Every child harbors a dream. For me, it was that someday I might be so overpaid for writing novels that I could devote myself to being an unpaid intern who hates tuberculosis and loves our extraordinary coffee. Next week, the dream resumes, and I will once again be the world’s only ethically sourced unpaid intern.

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This is a painting by the artist Hilma af Klint. It's quite geometric and abstract, and uses contrasting colors to draw the eye in and for me anyway lowers my blood pressure a little and awakens me to the idea that I am never truly alone, not metaphysically anyway.ALT

The elitist art world makes me absolutely sick with its deference to wealth and gross eagerness to flow wherever capital flows, not to mention the art-washing and tax-evading of the great contemporary “collectors,” from the Sacklers to the guy who keeps TB tests artificially expensive.

But god I love visual art so much. It helps me so much. It helps me get to the places language cannot take me.

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foolondahill17 asked:

How do you feel about Destiel? (The two men who announce the news here on Tumblr)

Oh yeah that seems like a really good fucking issue for this coffee company to weigh in on.

This coffee company is political because all economic activity is inherently political.

And so this coffee company understands that it has to take certain positions that will alienate a percentage of its customer base. But that does not mean this coffee company needs to run around throwing about opinions about Destiel on tumblr.

I am a coffee company that donates 100% of its profit to charity, and in order to survive and grow, I will not now or ever proffer an opinion on the Great Ships Of Our Era.

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jesperr-fahey asked:

hey coffee intern, I've got a coffee question! been thinking about buying an awesome coffee club subscription for my mom, but she's told me before that she doesn't like coffee that's "too strong". I'm not a coffee drinker myself, but she pretty much exclusively drinks dunkin. in your opinion, is awesome coffee club coffee Strong Coffee?

Coffee is generally made “strong” not by the kind of coffee but by the amount of ground coffee used to make a cup or pot of coffee.

That said, I suspect your mom means that she does not like her coffee too burnt–that is to say, she is not looking to experience ONLY the “coffee” taste in coffee, but is also looking for other flavors.

Both our roasts have complex flavor profiles because our beans aren’t burnt, so if she’s looking for more of a coffee and chocolate-flavored coffee, I recommend Octavia, and if she’s looking for a lighter flavor profile with many tasting notes, I recommend Calypso.

Thanks for working to improve your mom’s coffee life. What you’re considering is a lasting and beautiful gift.

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catholiccupcake asked:

I just read the article you posted a while back about TB (heads up- it said the gift article link has lapsed or some such). Did J&J ‘evergreen’ (be allowed to be evil) or was it allowed to become generic?


Relatedly, how do you manage empathy fatigue? I deal with OCD too and it screams at me that I have to care about and do all the things all at once. How do you choose where to put your time and energy?


(Also, when I get the coffee subscription for my husband’s birthday, which version should I get?)

  1. For me empathy fatigue sets in when I careen my attention from this crisis to that one to the next one to the one after that, always feeling overwhelmed by each emerging problem but never having the time or attention to devote myself to one problem or another.

I’ll give you an example. In 2014, a horrific ebola epidemic swept through Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The world paid attention to it. Everyone was talking about it. And then …. it ended. At least in the global imagination. Money dried up. The world moved on to the next crisis.

That’s not to say the next crisis wasn’t important. It was important. But in Sierra Leone, the ebola crisis wasn’t really over even after people stopped contracting ebola. 15% of Sierra Leone’s healthcare workers had been killed by ebola, and the already fragile healthcare system plummeted into what one Sierra Leonean physician described to me as “a state of collapse.”

And so the crisis remained a crisis even after the world’s attention shifted. 1 in 17 women in Sierra Leone were dying in childbirth. Over 10% of kids born died before the age of five. Tuberculosis killed thousands every year despite curative treatment being available.

And this is when Hank and I finally, belatedly realized that responding to crises in the news was not adequate. Instead, we would need to commit the kind of long-term attention and long-term support that long-term crises demand. This means making difficult choices–there is also high maternal and child mortality in countries other than Sierra Leone, but we choose to focus on Sierra Leone because we see an opportunity to make a difference, because the government is serious if limited in its commitment to improving healthcare and educational opportunities, and because we had to make a choice or else we would be overwhelmed by the many causes.

What about the other causes? Well, we trust people to work on those causes. We believe in their importance. And we support their work by doing ours as well as we can, and trusting they are doing theirs as well as they can. I still get overwhelmed. I still get depressed. But I find that the deeper I go into my particular areas of interest–global healthcare delivery, health care accessibility, ending TB, fighting maternal mortality–the better I feel personally, and the more good I feel like I’m able to do.

2. Johnson & Johnson has not abandoned their secondary patents on bedaquiline but they have committed to allow generics to be available in most countries, even those where the secondary patents apply. Unfortunately this deal leaves out many countries that need generic bedaquiline, including Ukraine, which is absolutely unacceptable. So progress has been made, but the progress (as is so often the case) is inadequate. The fight goes on.

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