espresso

My Twitter Espresso Experience

Two weeks ago my espres­so machine died — with­out warn­ing. Not up to date regard­ing espres­so machines I was con­front­ed with an exhaust­ing prod­uct com­par­i­son marathon. But — why not use Twit­ter? I wrote about my lit­tle social rec­om­men­da­tion exper­i­ment here. Now I want to to com­plete the descrip­tion of this exper­i­ment with more qual­i­ta­tive results. First, this is how my new Saeco Aroma, the Gas­troback cof­fee mill, the beans, milled at medi­um grade,

May 1, 2009

Twitter as a Social Recommendation Network

I’m a big fan of word-of-mouth and even rec­om­men­da­tion engines often pro­duce rel­e­vant and valu­able results. But no rec­om­men­da­tion engine will beat this rec­om­men­da­tion net­work — for­mer­ly known as microblog­ging tool — named Twit­ter. Besides quite a few sto­ries told by friends I hap­pened to learn about the social rec­om­men­da­tion power of Twit­ter myself: A day before the East­er hol­i­days my espres­so machine decid­ed to pass away. She had a good life of rough­ly 15 years, visited

April 20, 2009

Italian-style Starbucks

One very offline busi­ness idea came into my mind: You all know Star­bucks. Star­bucks entered a over­crowd­ed mar­ket (you got your cof­fee near­ly every­where) with a com­mod­i­ty prod­uct (cof­fee). The result: they are extreme­ly suc­cess­ful and are run­ning 13.000+ stores world­wide. In Europe, espe­cial­ly in Ger­many, Ital­ian food is ubiq­ui­tous — here in Munich we have hun­dreds of lit­tle pizza restau­rants and Ital­ian cof­fee bars. I think it’s time for an Italian-style Star­bucks: restaurants-cum-takeaways

Jan­u­ary 7, 2008

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

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