artemistiques asked:
You said on Instagram recently that you don't want to retire. Can you please explain? I've had some pretty cool jobs, but I don't dream of labor, so I can't wait to be done working forever.
Artemistiques, when I say that I don’t want to retire, I mean that I don’t want to retire from my true and ultimate calling, which is to be an unpaid intern for a coffee company that donates its profit to charity.
coffeetime88 asked:
Why don't you get paid for your work? There've gotta be better paying jobs, bro.
I'm still gonna buy some coffee from the company, though.
Coffeetime, one weird thing about me is that my day job is Getting Paid for Something I Did Twelve Years Ago, so I am able to comfortably afford focusing my present energies on my unpaid internship for the Awesome Coffee Club.
The snow-white ground was cracked like dried lips and crunched under my feet. I could smell the salt. I kept trying to think of what it looked like, but my brain could only find highly figurative similes. It looks like driving alone at night feels. It looks like everything you're scared to say out loud. It looks like the moment the water retreats from the shore just before a wave rolls in.
~John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed
This is a better advertisement for the awesome coffee club than I could ever make. And it doubles as an ad for a book. There’s an ad in the ad. Amazing!
kaiasky asked:
why is it awesomesocks.club but only awesomecoffeeclub.com?
My friend, Hank and I are writers, not Proper Business People.
But I have a story about this: So a while back this person notices that our socks are at awesomesocks.club while our coffee is at awesomecoffeeclub.com, which is the kind of thing that yeah we should’ve fixed, but awesomesocksclub.com was taken and we didn’t want to pay some URL-buying professional for a domain name for our charity sock company.
But right so this person, Buck, notices the discrepancy and then sends me an email saying, “Listen, I noticed someone else owned awesomesocksclub dot com SO I WENT AHEAD AND BOUGHT IT FOR YOU AND HERE’S THE LOGIN CREDENTIALS FOR THE SITE HOPE YOURE HAVING A GOOD DAY.”
And so now you can go to awesomesocksclub.com and find our (currently out of stock) socks.
Our customers are so wonderfully enthusiastic. Incredible. He bought the domain! People can be so lovely. It’s a wonder.
chas-davis asked:
Do you use child slaves like Nestlé?
No. We are different from Nestle in a number of ways:
- Nestle does not give its profit to charity. Nestle gives its profit to shareholders, who are almost all already wealthy, which is weird, because why do THEY need money?
- Nestle’s coffee sucks.
- Our coffee beans come from small farmers’ collectives who we pay directly. It’s perfectly roasted, comes in compostable packaging, is fresher than any coffee you can buy in a grocery store, and tastes fucking amazing.
time-sponges asked:
You must experience a very strange kind of celebrity status. Do people come up to you in your local grocery store?
Yes, but it is almost always pleasant. If people do not like me or my work, they generally do not come up to me at the grocery store. (It is of course ok to leave me alone at the grocery store because you don’t like me or my work! I get it! I am problematic! I am annoying! I am overly earnest! Nobody can criticize me like I can criticize me!)
So that does not happen often. What does happen often is a lovely and unexpected gift of getting to hear from someone what my work has meant to them, and learn a bit about them, and maybe take a picture to commemorate the occasion. I used to feel like being “famous” (which is a weird word to apply to an unpaid coffee marketing intern) was an imposition on my daily life, and I missed not being able to have those private-in-public moments in Target or whatever. But no longer! Now I frame it as a gift, and a lovely one.
Is it an imposition when I’m with my kids or feeling especially anxious because the fast-cycling lights in Kroger do a number on my long-damaged vestibular system? Sometimes! But that’s okay! We all have impositions in our lives–and as impositions go, this is a very nice one.
national-nobody-writes asked:
John! I finally brewed a pot of the Calypso for my afternoon coffee today, and as a Certified Coffee Snob (person who's been working for a local roaster for over 5 yrs & is frequently, if lovingly, teased by my friends & fam for being WAY too picky), I'm thrilled to confirm that the coffee is, in fact, awesome!
You guys have great taste, both in coffee and in charity projects. :) Hope you're having fun w the unpaid internship!
Thank you! I would like to take credit for the excellence of the roast, but the geniuses at First Crack, a coffee roasting and education company, are behind the incredible taste profile. I am just the unpaid social media marketing intern.
Also, LOOK AT THE (architectural renderings of the) HOSPITAL YOUR COFFEE IS HELPING TO BUILD.
I still can’t believe yahoo bought tumblr. They spent a billion dollars on TUMBLR when they could’ve paid any tumblr user $10 to be like, “Y’all. No.”
Anyway, it’s better now. There are crabs all over my dashboard!