I’ve been a coffee nerd for some time already. Year after year I keep getting deeper into it, at this point it’s some kind of long-term hobby of mine.

Coffee is a slow hobby for me. In one hand, it’s a basic part of my day: I have not spent more than 48h without it for many years, so I’m pretty used to the process of making coffee and sometime don’t even put much thought into it. On the other hand, it’s a vast subject that no one can ever fully master, no matter how much time you put into it.

This, combined with my inclination to brief bursts of obsessive fascination with various topics, makes me periodically come and go to this world.

At my bottom, I just make sure to buy good (great) quality coffee and to keep a reasonable routine that keeps my quality requirements. At my top, I start reading about it, watching videos, buying new apparel, thinking about how to improve my coffee and what the next steps are to some day, get better from this world.

This is not the best approach if one really wants to get the most out of it, but in my opinion this is how healthy hobbies should be: something we really enjoy whenever we feel like it, and that we can keep on a side from time to time and just admire from a distance.

At some point, I might decide that one of my interests is worth more than that, and that’s the right moment to make a commitment and get deeper into it. It’s important to choose such commitment carefully when one has diverse interests: there’s a limited amount of energy one can spend and we can’t possibly go in-depth into everything.