Author: John Pepper

I penned this as we were getting ready to raise our pre-seed round for Worthee. We ended up with $1.2M from 25 different individuals for which we were very grateful and appreciative. I had...

I wrote this to our team at Boloco the other day – figured it might be worth sharing. And in case the word “crisis” in quotes is confusing, its because while those who employ...

For too long, many of my fellow restaurant leaders and owners have relied on the legal right to exploit workers as a core part of our business model.  Paying workers poverty wages was always immoral,...

I’ve tried so many things to become a writer. One time I crafted a note to John Irving… that I never sent. You need to actually send letters, take the risk, to make things...

March 15, 2020 I haven’t talked about the coronavirus at all. But it’s taking a toll. And I think it’s just beginning. An example of something that won’t happen much longer is the celebration...

Our middle child, Izzy, badly wanted a new iPhone for her 15th birthday. She had one of Maggie’s old used ones, it was cracked on every visible surface, and of course we thought that...

Exactly a year ago this evening, sitting at the very front of the gymnasium in Tracy Hall facing a hundred, give or take, citizens of Norwich, I peered out one of the side windows...

Many, many years ago… maybe in 1999 or 2000, I learned about a nifty service called eFax. Instead of having to worry about keeping paper in the fax machine and ensuring nobody was using...

This poem was written by my brother Doug’s daughter Molly who is 11 years old. I wanted to remember it and figured a good place to accomplish that for me is by posting it...