Favorite Things: Peter Chester

Peter Chester is a founding partner of Modern Tribe and all around fun guy. He’s multi-talented and also looks awesome in lederhosen (not opinion, pure science). To help you get to know Peter better here are a few of his favorite things:

Podcasts

Hobby

Deepfried___Homegrown_organic_electronic_music.

I make music.

Sports Activity

surf

Stand up paddle board surfing

Secret Superpower

Spreadsheets – especially Google Docs.

Movie

What About Bob

Favorite Animal

Bees are amazing. mmmmm Honey.

Beverage

Sweet Verve Latte

Book

Right now, I’m still recovering from Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow“. Though prior to that I have always had a sweet spot in my heart for Oliver Sacks’ “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”

Meal

Chillout Breakfast Burrito

Scene

Sitting at a cafe late in the morning with a fresh latte, a great idea for a WordPress plugin, a MacBook Pro, PHPStorm, terminal opened to my new Digital Ocean droplet, SequelPro open, with a fresh Git repo using Jaquith’s skeleton setup, listening to Bonobo’s Black Sands…

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