Odds and Ends, July 2025 Edition

I spent most of the past week at a work onsite in San Francisco, planning out the next 4 months of work with my software development team. As a result, writing for myself has taken a back seat, although I'm hoping to get back to it in the coming days. I have a few pieces that I'm noodling on, so stay tuned for what's next!

In the meantime, here are some odds and ends to share out as we near the end of the month...

I pulled out the list of books from my The Year I Stopped Reading Alone piece, and started a running list of my 2025 In Books. My plan is to keep this standalone list up-to-date in a way that I wouldn't do with the list that was part of the published piece. For instance, since I published my The Year I Stopped Reading Alone piece, I started and finished reading To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway for the Tough Guy Book Club's upcoming August 6th meeting.

I've been (slowly) re-publishing the old posts from my Wordpress site as The Archives. 63 posts done, 58 to go. Each post from The Archives is only available to members who sign up, so you will need to subscribe to the site in order to access them.

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