My favorite fuels to keep me going during the long hours at Apple: the free extra-extra-tall coffees from Caffe Macs, gallons of Mountain Dew, and apples (really I usually munched on potato chips, but the picture has an apple in it, so I’m going with the flow.) The photos of my family helped too.
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It’s strange how drinks, food and images of what you are missing can inspire you and help you work harder, faster and better; yet it happens to many. It’s a psychology I am still to figure out.
Mike, come on. The coffee out of Caffe Macs was awful. The espresso based drinks were only good enough to keep me from going off campus. The food at Caffe Macs is very good. The wood fired pizza oven and the little guy – what is he, french? – own makes the pizzas, now that was good stuff. I stayed fat eating salads from Caffe Macs salad bar. Again, great food.
Hey Mike. Do you remember the story about the sushi chef that Steve had fired because the chef served something as vegan that was not? Do you have any details on that story?
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What can I say; it was free caffeine; and it was before I appreciated good coffee. Now I’ve got a Jura super-automatic espresso machine, so I never have to go out for coffee.
I had heard about that incident, but know nothing about it.
Those pizzas were great.
So you drink coffee at work and you keep photos of your family on your desk. That’s so very interesting. Not too many people do that.
LOL.
Were the hours at Apple very long? How strict were they as well? Did you just have to get the work done by a certain time, however long it took, or did you have fixed working hours?
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I like the lava lamp as well… that simple invention has helped me though many all-night editing sessions.
“Did you just have to get the work done by a certain time…”
In the department I worked in things usually need to be finished by yesterday.
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Mike, just one question about regarding your book: what format you want for the pictures on it? To be inline w/the text or have them all grouped together at the middle of the book for example, as a photo album?
Hi Carlos – I hope to have the photos ‘inline’; I never like it when books group them all together. (I know it is usually done that way to save money on printing.)
Which Jura machine do you have?
Matt – It’s an Impressa Ultra that I picked up in Germany several years ago (before Jura started selling in the US). It is basically the same as the current Impressa S7.
Lava lamps are so incredibly useful for keeping the mind active and creative, in my experience.
There’s a reason I currently have two of them set up around my 23″ Cinema display. Love ‘m!
I remember when lava lamps were popular the first time around. That’s kind of scary.
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