An Open Letter to Bose CEO Phil Hess
Make it possible for a customer to maintain a set of headphones for at least a generation, or shut up about sustainability Continue reading An Open Letter to Bose CEO Phil Hess
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The Farewell to Kavarna Letter
You may know us, you may not. It’s hard to know who is reading this blog. But we have been the owners of one of the largest coffeehouses in Wisconsin since 1999. My wife, who is amazing, opened it in 1999 when she was 29 years old. My part in it came later as we … Continue reading The Farewell to Kavarna Letter
On Giving Things Names, Branding, and the Like
Linda and I have named quite a few things, from cafés to people. Linda named Kavarna after having seen a picture of a coffeehouse in Prague. Kavarna is, simply, the word for coffeehouse in Czech; we must seem pretty simplistic to native Czech speakers! It would be like traveling to the Ukraine and finding a … Continue reading On Giving Things Names, Branding, and the Like
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