Social Media Explained (with donuts)
Tumblr: This is a really beautiful photo of a high end donut.
Reddit: There is a conspiracy in the donut industry
4Chan: Donut. Hole. LOL.
Quora: What’s the industry wide standard deviation in donut hole size?
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Tonx until February: Free, as in beer.
Dear Internet Friends,
We started Tonx just a few short months ago and the response has been very encouraging. We do one thing, and do it well - which is ship great coffee to your doorstep when you need it.
Right now we want more people to experience our product, plain and simple.
So we’ve decided (temporarily) to allow people to sign up for a free trial of Tonx. If you sign up before February (and we haven’t totally run out of product) we will send you a half bag of Tonx, for free.
If you know of others who have been wanting to try Tonx, or perhaps someone who doesn’t know about Tonx yet but should - now might be a good time to spread the word!
Sincerely, Nik
Tonight’s sunset in Los Angeles. —CareyGLY
I was driving into Venice while Tony was watching this from his Echo Park deck. Every other sentence I kept interrupting to remark at how awesome it was.
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WHAT?!
one bag at a time: Kenya Karatina AA - Tonx
They [Tonx] work hard to back up the claim that they really want you to drink good coffee and it shows. This means You can email them, call them, or send them a letter and they’ll respond. This also means they ship out your coffee within 24 hours of it being roasted and send it priority so it gets to you super fresh. If you haven’t yet left this silly blog to sign up for their awesome subscription, which gets you an awesome bag of coffee every two weeks, I’ll go on. Something that their coffee and business model has taught me is to just chill out. You don’t have to fret about whether you are drinking the coolest current single origin or waste a lot of time dialing that coffee in to your preferred method. I’ve had five coffees from them in the last two months and they’ve all been tasty in all the methods I can think of. Tonx is like rehab. Relax and enjoy the coffee.
This type of feedback creates many smiles in the Tonx HQ.
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@nleach: 2011 in Coffee
Coffee of the Year
Looking back over the year, was there a single stand out? You bet!
I’d like to say this was a difficult decision, and while more than a few exceptional coffees hit my cup, none came close to the El Salvador Finca Montery Bambu from Tonx. The Coffee Adventures review of this coffee pretty much sums it up for me:
I enjoyed this coffee more than I can put words together to describe this feeling.The aroma alone convinced fellow developer Bob Patterson to give coffee a second chance.
Hot damn! Thanks Nicky!
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This presentation from Tom Preston-Werner, founder of GitHub, is a veritable master class on building teams and company culture.
Have a flip through here or click/tap to see the speaker notes which add much more depth to the slides.
Frankly, almost everything that has come out of Powerset and Github on company building/culture is something that frequently send to others and re-read frequently. They are empowering, smart, and wonderfully opinionated.
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Glad Tonx snuck a couple in there. Looking forward to seeing 2012 :)
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I'm Nikolaus Bauman 