if it doesn’t matter, why does it matter?

Coffee Break: issue #55 **Today’s missive is less of a missive and more of a writing prompt. I encourage you to reply to this email once you’ve done it.** Happy Saturday, Reader. A few weeks ago I sent you a B-sides sample of a piece I wrote about my time in the service industry. It’s here if you want to re-read. In all that time, I must have engaged in hundreds of thousands of IRL interactions — with my coworkers, with my bosses, with every single person at every single table or barstool. Of...