CURRENTLY

• leading the paragon policy fellowship
• expressing strong beliefs, loosely held
• lurking on twitter & linkedin
• reading the book of disquietude by fernando pessoa

  my little library

  2025

  • places and names: on war, revolution, and returning | elliot ackerman
  • the four agreements: a practical guide to personal freedom | miguel ruiz
  • the nickel boys | colson whitehead
  • our man | george packer
  • the secret gospel of mark | spencer reece
  • the master and margarita | mikhail bulgakov
  • madonna in a fur coat | sabahattin ali
  • four seasons in rome | anthony doerr

  2024

  • time is a mother | ocean vuong
  • where the crawdads sing | delia owens
  • war doctor | david nott
  • the stranger | albert camus
  • rules of civility | amor towles
  • project hail mary | andy weir
  • my brilliant friend | elena ferrante
  • stories of your life and others | ted chiang
  • here after | amy lin
  • kafka on the shore | haruki murakami
  • calypso | david sedaris
  • the remains of the day | kazuo ishiguro
  • all the light we cannot see | anthony doerr
  • prisoners of geography | tim marshall
  • the great alone | kristin hannah
  • this is how they tell me the world ends | nicole perlroth
  • the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy | douglas adams
  • the unbearable lightness of being | milan kundera

  2023

  • home, land, security | carla power
  • devotions | mary oliver
  • bottoms up and the devil laughs | kerry howley
  • demian | hermann hesse
  • some people need killing | patricia evangelista
  • building a second brain | tiago forte
  • chip war | chris miller
  • tracers in the dark | andy greenberg
  • the maniac | benjamin labatut
  • exhalation | ted chiang
  • steve jobs | walter isaacson
  • brief answers to the big questions | stephen hawking
  • four thousand weeks | oliver burkeman
  • life undercover | amaryllis fox
  • the untethered soul | michael singer
  • war is a force that gives us meaning | chris hedges
  • the almanack of naval ravikant | eric jorgenson
  • those we throw away are diamonds | mondiant dogon
  • how civil wars start | barbara walter
  • end times | peter turchin
  • einstein's dreams | alan lightman
  • the alchemist | paulo coelho
  • mornings in jenin | susan abulhawa
  • wild swans | jung chang
  • the secret history | donna tartt
  • first they killed my father | loung ung
  • why fathers cry at night | kwame alexander
  • a civic technologist's practice guide | cyd harrell
  • autoportrait | édouard levé
  • solito | javier zamora
  • rough sleepers | tracy kidder
  • braiding sweetgrass | robin wall kimmerer
  • the fifth risk | michael lewis
  • the good life | robert waldinger
  • the overstory | richard powers
  • slouching towards bethlehem | joan didion
  • the art of war | thomas cleary
  • a stone is most precious where it belongs | gulchehra hoja
  • man's search for meaning | viktor e. frankl
  • what you have heard is true | carolyn forché
  • the song of achilles | madeline miller
  • a thousand splendid suns | khaled hosseini
  • sapiens | yuval noah harari
  • what my bones know | stephanie foo
  • a gentleman in moscow | amor towles
  • minor feelings | cathy park hong
  • we wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families | philip gourevitch
  • empire of pain | patrick radden keefe
  • all the young men | ruth coker burks
  • poverty, by america | matthew desmond
  • you can't be serious | kal penn
  • a heart that works | rob delaney
  • caste | isabel wilkerson
  • readme.txt | chelsea manning
  • these precious days | ann patchett
  • we were dreamers | simu liu
  • i saw ramallah | mourid barghouti
  • being mortal | atul gawande
  • all the frequent troubles of our days | rebecca donner
  • everything i never told you | celeste ng
  • questions for ada | ijeoma umebinyuo
  • biased | jennifer l. eberhardt
  • how we fight for our lives | saeed jones
  • invisible women | caroline criado pérez
  • the girl who smiled beads | clemantine wamariya
  • shoe dog | phil knight
  • the sun does shine | anthony ray hinton
  • i'm glad my mom died | jennette mccurdy
  • unbroken | laura hillenbrand
  • maybe you should talk to someone | lori gottlieb
  • born a crime | trevor noah
  • hunger | roxane gay
  • life on mars | tracy k. smith
  • tell me how it ends | valeria luiselli
  • a woman makes a plan | maye musk

  2022

  • between the world and me | ta-nehisi coates
  • the education of an idealist | samantha power
  • tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow | gabrielle zevin
  • love is a mix tape | rob sheffield
  • the bright hour | nina riggs
  • a history of my brief body | billy-ray belcourt
  • heavy | kiese laymon
  • the seven husbands of evelyn hugo | taylor jenkins reid
  • evicted | matthew desmond
• located in san francisco

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