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SVP, Engineering @NBCUniversal :: Alumni: @Nike, @Disney, @Microsoft :: #coffee :: #whiskey :: #life2point0 :: #storytelling :: time traveler :: so it goes :: 🏴‍☠️
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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

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Espresso Shots 11-09-25
'Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.' - Jim Hopper (David Harbour) in Stranger Things
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November 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Fun isn’t the opposite of serious — it’s how we survive it.
#leadership #storytelling #thinking #life2point0

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Are We Having Fun Yet?
"Well, I'll tell you something. This is no longer a vacation. It's a quest. It's a quest for fun." -Chevy Chase as Clark W. Griswold in Vacation
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November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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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
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Espresso Shots 11-02-25
'I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.' — David Lynch
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November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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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
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Espresso Shots 10-26-25
"Coffee is the answer, but I don't know the question." - Unknown
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October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 10-19-25
"But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all. New York has great water for coffee." - David Lynch
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October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 10-12-25
"If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." ― David Letterman
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October 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 10-05-25
"Without my morning coffee, I'm just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach
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October 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 9-26-25
'I don’t need an inspirational quote. I need coffee.' -- Unknown
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September 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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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

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Espresso Shots 9-21-25
'The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.' - Andrea Illy
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September 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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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

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Espresso Shots 9-14-25
"Coffee! Because anger management is too expensive." – Unknown
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September 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 9-7-25
"If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all." - David Letterman
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September 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 8-31-25
"Coffee is a language in itself." - Jackie Chan
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August 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 8-24-25
"My doctor told me to give up coffee. But I told him, I’m a writer, not a suicide bomber." – Jerry Seinfeld
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August 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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August 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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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

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Espresso Shots 8-17-25
"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?" - Cassandra Clare
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August 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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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

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Espresso Shots 8-10-25
"Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat." - Johann Sebastian Bach
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August 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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
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Espresso Shots 8-3-25
"Way too much coffee. But if it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
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August 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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It was a paella night - we caught the crab; fresh mussels and clams from Westcott Bay, and some local shrimp. #sjilife #photography
August 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Bummer to see Apple Intelligence (even cloud models) not available to Shorttcuts on WatchOS 26 beta.
July 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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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
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Espresso Shots 7-27-25
"I never laugh until I've had my coffee." - Clark Gable
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July 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Yuck. Woke at 3:15a, started thinking about the day ahead and morning coffee.

And once I start thinking about coffee, it’s over...
July 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Been reading about Meshtastic, feels like a rabbit hole that could be interesting. #sjilife

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Meshtastic
An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
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July 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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
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Espresso Shots 7-20-25
"Life without coffee is like a broken pencil – pointless" - Unknown
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July 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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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
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Espresso Shots 7-13-25
"A yawn is a silent scream for coffee" - Unknown
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July 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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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.
July 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM