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Let’s Talk About Coffee
In a recent 1-on-1 meeting with someone on my team the weekly icebreaker that I had set for the meeting was the question: “How do you take your coffee?”. This has stuck with me as a necessary blog post mainly because I also included coffee in the blog tagline: “Thoughts on Engineering. And Coffee”. So let’s talk about coffee.
Coffee is very interesting. The drink itself has a rich history (WPC Score: 23). Apparently the drink didn’t really show up until the 1500s — which is very interesting as I have always figured that it had been around a while being one of the main beverages that seems to be found everywhere along with tea (3rd century China), beer (over 13,000 years old), and water (4.6 billion years give or take a few). According to wikipedia, coffe is thought to have originated in Africa, probably in Ethiopia. The first confirmed evidence of drinking coffee is attributed to monks in Yemen. From there it spread through the Middle East, Asia, northern Africa, Europe, and finally to the Americas. This quick history lesson is not really on topic for this post — but when I sat down to write about coffee I realized that I really had no clue about where it came from and 5 minutes ago would have paired it up with the cocoa bean and called it a day. Cool.
Back to the 1-on-1 and the real reason for this post. After hearing from my teammate about their preference to drink he first…
