Deep thoughts: "Tea is in my opinion a phantasticum, coffee an energeticum—tea therefore possesses a disproportionately higher artistic rank. I notice that coffee disrupts the delicate lattice of light and shadows, ...
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... the fruitful doubts that emerge during the writing of a sentence. One exceeds his inhibitions. With tea, on the other hand, the thoughts climb genuinely upward." Ernst Jünger in a letter to Albert Hoffman, 1947. (He also wrote this to inspire me to give up on coffee).
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Coffee is for work and code, tea is for writing and thinking.
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What if your work is writing and thinking?
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I would like to agree re coffee (and used to), but I get destroyed by it these days. Having said that, I agree for tea, and love that Jünger classifies it as phantasticum. BTW, this whole correspondence between them is quite interesting.
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My typical morning starts with pour-over coffee (making it is a very meditative ritual), followed by a cup of black tea. Energeticum + phantasticum.
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So, what is work that is not thinking, writing, or coding? Managing?
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