Personal Interests

Outside work, I read, listen to music and podcasts, study history and languages, and travel when I can. I read 75+ books a year, from Gilgamesh and the Icelandic sagas to Joyce and Robert Caro. These pages give an idea of what I care about outside work.

Writing

I write Within & Without, essays on literature and history, on Substack at ahare63.substack.com.

Journal club

I run a journal club, now in its third year, for up to 30 people. Speakers have included the founders of the AI startups Pangram and Nori, as well as a Nebula Award-winning author. Talks have ranged from the Odyssey to medicine to mushrooms.

Interviewing

I’m a Princeton Alumni Interviewer.

Groups I admire

The Oxford Internet Institute (OII) is a multi-disciplinary group that studies the social science of the Internet. This group stands out to me because of the breadth of work they do along with the focus on understanding emerging issues impacting people around the world. Notable projects include Computational Propaganda (now the Programme on Democracy & Technology), Illegal Wildlife Trade, and Economic Geographies of the Darknet.

Global Pulse is a team at the United Nations that focuses on leveraging big data to aid in development and humanitarian action. Their projects span a huge range of topics across the world. Notable projects include Mobile Data For Sustainable Development & Humanitarian Action, Estimating Migration Flows Using Online Search Data, and Measuring Poverty with Machine Roof Counting (archived pages — the site has since been restructured).