Trove - August 30, 2022
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Hi everyone,
Here’s your weekly trove of recommendations. If you enjoy it, please feel free to forward this along to friends.
Cocktail bitters and beverages made from wild plants
I learned about DRAM Apothecary while I was in college in Boulder, CO and have been a fan ever since. Run by a husband and wife team, the founders started out by making bitters from wild foraged plants in the Rocky Mountains, and over the years added CBD drops and sparkling water products to their store. You can read more about their story here. I received the shirt below as a KickStarter reward for helping fund their previous workshop in Silver Plume, CO. The design is a retired logo for their “Hair of the Dog” bitters. It remains my favorite piece of clothing.
Two kinds of cooks by Seth Godin
Seth is a smart, empathetic, and articulate teacher of marketing and entrepreneurial creativity. His blog and podcast are both great.
A business memoir I’m looking forward to re-reading
From the desciption of Anything You Want:
Entrepreneurs often lose sight of what matters. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn’t that enough?
Derek Sivers accidentally started a business by helping musicians sell their music. It became the largest online seller of independent music with over 150,000 musicians and $100M in sales. After ten years, he sold the company for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.
In “Anything You Want” he shares 40 powerful lessons, in a book you can read in about an hour.
Quotes from A Monk’s Guide to a Clean House and Mind
There is an old Zen teaching that says that if you haven’t washed your face, everything you do throughout the day will be impolite and hasty.
The highest excellence is like water. These words from the Tao Te Ching convey that the ideal way of life is like water: flexible and calm.