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Performance6 min readApr 12, 2026

The Coffee Tax: Why High Performers Are Quietly Switching To Pouches

Five minutes a cup, four cups a day, twenty workdays a month. Here's what you're actually losing — and what 10,000+ men did about it.

M
Marcus Lane
Performance Editor
The Coffee Tax: Why High Performers Are Quietly Switching To Pouches

There is a tax you are paying every morning, and you do not see it on any receipt. Five minutes for the line. Four for the order. Three to walk back. Twenty wasted minutes daily. Across a year, that is 80 hours — two full work weeks — spent waiting for hot bean water.

A pouch hits in 15 minutes, lasts four hours, and never makes you wait. We did not invent this — Special Forces did, F1 drivers refined it, hedge fund analysts kept it a secret. We just made it taste good and put a shark on the front.

If you are still drinking coffee on the job, you are competing against men who quit the queue.

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M
Marcus Lane
Performance Editor

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