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What I’m Up To
Boats: Restoring a ‘88 Boston Whaler Montauk 17 and a Joel White Shellback Dinghy, and helping maintain Thora, a Ted Hood-design 36’ yawl.
Running: Just getting started, trying to hit 250 miles this year.
Reading: Have a good recommendation? Send it my way, and see what’s been on my nightstand, below.
What I'm reading in 2025:
| Title | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The New Middle East | Paul Danahar | Finished |
| France on Trial | Julian Jackson | In Progress |
| The Long Game | Dorrie Clark | Finished |
| The Cosmopolites | Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | Finished |
| How to Do Nothing | Jenny Odell | Finished |
| The Art of the Long View | Peter Schwartz | Finished |
| Raiders, Rulers, and Traders | David Chaffetz | In Progress |
| Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile | John Hanson Mitchell | Finished |
| Ship Fever & Other Stories | Andrea Barrett | In Progress |
| The Signals Are Talking | Amy Webb | Abandoned |
| Is a River Alive? | Robert McFarlane | Finished |
| The Old Ways | Robert McFarlane | Finished (An annual read) |
| The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt | In Progress |
| The Looking Glass War | John Le Carré | Finished |
| Abundance | Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson | Finished |
| Strategy | Lawrence Freedman | Finished |