Sorry this week’s episode is late. I had recorded it, but when I opened the file to edit, my voice suddenly sounded oddly metallic, so I had to scrap it and record again.

This episode grows out of this week’s newsletter, but it wanders a little farther: into the backstory, the books, and the very Korean logic behind iced Americano in winter. In other words, this is not just a story about coffee.

It’s a story about work, habit, space, youth, and the small stubborn self that still says, “I’ll have it iced.”

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