☕ Can your coffee order reveal your work ethic?

A CEO swears she can judge your character by how you order at Starbucks.

I’ve had too much coffee myself so, please forgive me for this… but work can be a grind. According to finance CEO Codie Sanchez, you can tell a latte about someone by watching how they order their morning cup. You can sort the drips from the rest without having to pour over a resume. You can see how they espresso themselves or if high-pressure situations get them steamed.

As Mark Wales reports, Codie is not the only one with strong opinions. Science says we often spend more time on unimportant tasks than big ones, while Reddit wonders if slow coffee choosers are just being careful with their beans. In other words, before you filter out job candidates based on barista banter, maybe check if they’re just savoring the moment. After all, nobody wants to be judged as a has-bean too soon.

I’ll probably get roasted for how I wrote this.*

* - I think that’s 11 coffee puns. Can you find them all?

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🎬 The American accent can mess with the non-American mind

Everything else in the movies is fake, why not the voices?

For millions outside the U.S., the American accent doesn’t feel… real. It’s the sound of Spider-Man, sitcom dads, pop stars on the radio. So when a tourist in New York hears it on the subway, or an Australian touches down in L.A., something weird happens: reality feels scripted.

As Erik Barnes reports, Reddit is full of people confessing that hearing an American in person is like stepping straight into a film or video game. Some call it cartoonish. Others call it surreal. Everyone agrees it’s uncanny.

Why does an accent feel like fiction until you meet it face to face? And what does that say about how America sounds to the rest of the world?

And what did we learn?

Yesterday we asked about the late, great Robert Redford’s legacy. His unforgettable roles left the biggest impression among GOOD readers, but his activism was a close second.

• The unforgettable roles (Butch Cassidy, The Sting, The Natural) (41.9%)

• Founding Sundance and uplifting indie voices (12.2%)

• His decades of environmental activism (33.8%)

• Something else (leave your answer) (12.2%)

Reader CFLanga summed it up best. “All of the above. I hope all the filmmakers he has inspired and promoted with take up his causes and carry on.“

🎪 Pizza, nostalgia, and Zeebo the clown: why childhood horror still hits as adults

Nick nick nick nick nick nick NICK nick… was terrifying.

It starts with a dusty attic, an empty swing, and a laugh you swear wasn’t in the room a second ago. For a generation of ‘90s kids, Are You Afraid of the Dark? was our first taste of real terror, and as Ryan Reed chillingly recounts, one episode in particular still messes with us today.

Ryan thought he was just having a fun nostalgia night with a buddy, binging old episodes and eating pizza. Instead, he found himself squirming on the couch, reliving a fear he couldn’t shake even as an adult. The culprit? A certain wide-grinned carnival clown with yellow teeth and hollow eyes.

But why does something so silly still creep into our dreams decades later? A therapist explains the unnerving brain science, and it’s a lot stranger (and more relatable) than you think.

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