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		<title>Some Things Need Tuning, Others Need Leaving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s a certain kind of story the internet instantly falls for. You know the format: someone with just enough status to sound unquestionable, simplicity, a symbolic detail like a black coffee, a minimalist detail like a black coffee, and one sharp sentence delivered with enough detachment to pass for life philosophy: »I stopped adding sugar to things that were bitter.« It’s exactly the kind of line that spreads because it offers more than advice. It offers posture: standards, clarity, self-respect, no more pretending. Quotes like: »The most successful people don’t add sugar. They taste things as they are — and if it’s bitter, they stop drinking.« And to be fair, it works because it touches something real. People do spend a lot of time sweetening things that are not good for them. They stay in draining relationships, flattening jobs, and dynamics that quietly wear them down, and instead of naming the problem, they soften it with interpretation. They call it complicated, demanding, a phase, an opportunity to grow. In that sense, the quote names a &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Taste Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[»Dump the first espresso of the day.« That was the advice, I saw in a reel the other day. A guy standing in a spotless kitchen, speaking with quiet authority. No drama, no irony. Just a clean instruction. Even if you single dose. Even if you weigh your beans to the tenth of a gram. The coffee sitting in the dead space of the grinder overnight will have oxidized. It will dull the shot. It is not worth drinking. My first reaction was not technical curiosity. It was a quiet sense of loss. Imagine starting your morning by pouring something warm and carefully prepared straight into the sink. A small ritual of control disguised as refinement. I thought: I would not even taste it. But maybe that is the point. Probably some people really can. There are palates that register the faint stale edge from yesterday’s grounds. People who notice when brightness turns flat by a margin most of us glide past. The same goes for sound, for smell, for texture. Some hear the subtle &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hello, Today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today is January 1st. Not a good day for looking back on the year that has just ended. I’ve already spent a lot of time doing that — revisiting what I experienced, the successes and the wounds, the progress and the setbacks, taking a closer look at encounters and goodbyes, taking stock. Today, I don’t want to do it again. Nor is today a good day for looking ahead to the year that has just begun. Too much is still uncertain. Vague. Too many decisions haven’t been made yet, and countless possibilities probably haven’t even crossed my mind. Today — January 1st — is a perfect day to be lived consciously. To be present, in the truest sense of the word. To enjoy what is right now, and what isn’t. And to be grateful. I woke up today in good spirits. I’m healthy — apart from a few minor things. And those minor things are being taken care of. I live in a country where the occasional injury doesn’t pose a serious risk. I woke &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Time Tastes Different: On Trading Leadership for Presence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The first time I read about Before the Coffee Gets Cold, I was sitting in a café not unlike the one in the book — quiet, a little narrow, the kind of place where time seems to gather rather than pass. Outside, the city was still in its morning hurry, but inside there was only the soft hum of the espresso machine and the faint clatter of cups. In Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s novel, a small Tokyo back-alley café offers more than simply excellent coffee; it offers its customers a single, improbable gift: the chance to travel back in time. There are rules, of course — but the most important is this: you must return before your cup of coffee goes cold. It’s an idea so simple it feels like it must already have existed somewhere in us. The limit isn’t magical, it’s human. Warmth doesn’t last forever. Attention, patience, connection — none of them do. Reading it, I realised how much of my own life revolves around managing time instead of living inside it. I run &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Protective Effects against Asthma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2022 09:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was just having my first cup of coffee in the morning, when an article on sprudge.com popped up in my feed reader. As an asthmatic and coffee enthusiast it naturally caught my attention. It reports about a study by medical professionals from Korea’s Hallym University, Hanyang University, and Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, with research finding that moderate coffee consumption can lower the frequency of symptoms associated with asthma. As might be expected from this quote, the effects of coffee would not be useful in treating an asthma attack— coffee is more preventative than treatment. But in addition, «caffeine has several therapeutic effects that also reduces respiratory muscle fatigue». So all in all, good news, don’t you think?]]></description>
		
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