You meet your friends by circumstances, the right place at the right time.
Sometimes you lose touch with your friends, because the path of life is different for everyone and, for me at least, that path often diverges from the intersection that is the point of friendship.
But when one day, totally unexpected, you see a small note, a sign, that you were remembered in some way, it really brightens your day.
A friend of mine who used to work at Foodzie started his own company in California called Tonx. The concept is simple: A subscription for a bag of coffee beans, selected by the creators of the business, shipped to you every two weeks. Almost every bag will be a different type of beans, giving you a nice breadth of the variety of beans out there in the world. A nice break from the monotony of the typical engineer coffee fare of Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks or even *shudders* Folgers.
I never told my friend that I was subscribing to Tonx. I figured that I'm just one of the many customers with a quality coffee addiction and with some money to burn for premium beans. I've been following my friend's career path passively and was intrigued that he chose to apply his technological skills in the areas of food exploration. I remember him as a filesystems intern at Apple Computer, a fan of White Stripes, loves his sweetheart from high school (whom he is now married to), big nature lover and one of the six interns stuck in the bathroom at the Redwoods National Park while a black bear tore into his car.
Today, I received my first bag of beans. Lo and behold, a note of remembrance flashed across the shipping label.
Hi Nik! Happy New Year. :) Many blessings to your new venture.
Sometimes you lose touch with your friends, because the path of life is different for everyone and, for me at least, that path often diverges from the intersection that is the point of friendship.
But when one day, totally unexpected, you see a small note, a sign, that you were remembered in some way, it really brightens your day.
A friend of mine who used to work at Foodzie started his own company in California called Tonx. The concept is simple: A subscription for a bag of coffee beans, selected by the creators of the business, shipped to you every two weeks. Almost every bag will be a different type of beans, giving you a nice breadth of the variety of beans out there in the world. A nice break from the monotony of the typical engineer coffee fare of Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks or even *shudders* Folgers.
I never told my friend that I was subscribing to Tonx. I figured that I'm just one of the many customers with a quality coffee addiction and with some money to burn for premium beans. I've been following my friend's career path passively and was intrigued that he chose to apply his technological skills in the areas of food exploration. I remember him as a filesystems intern at Apple Computer, a fan of White Stripes, loves his sweetheart from high school (whom he is now married to), big nature lover and one of the six interns stuck in the bathroom at the Redwoods National Park while a black bear tore into his car.
Today, I received my first bag of beans. Lo and behold, a note of remembrance flashed across the shipping label.
Hi Nik! Happy New Year. :) Many blessings to your new venture.
