Two weeks ago, we ran our first-ever US event at Taylor St. Barista’s
Madison Avenue shop in New York and, today, we are super excited to release our
first video of our opening speaker: the incredibly inspiring Meister. Described
by Nick Cho as “a secular sermon”, there was no better way to kick off a day about
understanding bias and creating a more diverse industry than with Meister’s
look at what it means to be ambitious in coffee. Although it holds gems for
both employees and employers working in coffee alike, Meister’s thoughts on
ambition and management ring true to all non-traditional industries and
This, like all of the talks from NY, should be saved on one of your
devices somewhere indefinitely and referred to whenever you start to question
why you’re doing what you’re doing. We spent a few months with this talk as
Meister was preparing it, and we still glean something new from it every time
Photograph by Brian W. Jones from DCILY for Tamper Tantrum NYC.