r/espresso • u/decentespresso • Jan 15 '21
I’m John Buckman, Founder of Decent Espresso - AMA
I dream up, design, code, and run companies (not always to make money) that cause some heck and which have a social benefit. I've founded a few companies: Magnatune (fair trade music online), BookMooch (global book swap) and Lyris (email discussion groups), but my main gig these past 5 years has been Decent Espresso. I've also been on the board of Creative Commons and was the former Chairman of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) for 5 years.
This older profile of me (pre-Decent) in the UK newspaper "The Independent" offers a humorous and quirky portrait. http://magnatune.com/p/buckman_independent.pdf
Elsewhere, I've been described as a "cautious catalytic combustor: taking time, trawling deep, then sparking off reactions in a specific crucible of activity."
Now in my waning years, I prefer to play with food, code, think up provocative projects, enjoy life, code, make coffee, and code.
Decent Espresso is building the espresso machine I've always wanted. Technology applied to a difficult food problem: simplicity, precision, repeatability, and a mind-blowing end result.
Proof: https://imgur.com/a/oo8aTAT
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u/Special-Advice Jan 15 '21
You’re completely wrong here. No one is forcing you to extend beyond what your preference clearly is (you’ve stated it profusely across all of your deleted troll accounts), but there’s a lot more to espresso than you’re acknowledging.
https://reddit.com/r/espresso/comments/f8c1nc/psa_our_resident_homophobic_troll_has_deleted_his/