Dawn terrace, this morning’s office for writing up notes. Good coffee, brisk hill station air, chanting from the local monastery wafting over and an hour …
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Short, fun interview for Sprudge magazine on the joy of coffee here. What does the photo have to do with caffeine intake? An early, breathless …
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Personalised city guide site Jauntful opened out of beta this week. It is co-founded by a couple of good friends Raphael and Moka and it’s …
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The 7/11 self-serve coffee machine is a curious example of task flow.
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This article summarises the issues in conducting corporate ethnographic research in rural locations covering logistics to research dynamics. Rural communities are far from homongenous. Over the …
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Today’s office is a 4WD climbing steadily to reach Ngozi, a small town 20 minutes inside the Burundi border. Our team of four are a …
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Today is Sunday 27th May, 2004. My early morning jaunt trying to track down this town’s finest coffee roaster for a fresh brew started at …
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By all counts it shouldn’t be place where people linger: it’s mid-block between two busy intersections and is hemmed in by a tight pavement on …
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The little touches that suggest this is going to be something good. That increase the anticipation. But then which falls flat – this was a poor tasting …
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A beautiful balance to this sign for a coffee roaster + cafe in a converted old-home. There’s something about drinking coffee from freshly roasted then …
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