INTERVIEWED: Adam Smith
OCCUPATION: Tech exec for Jasper AI, candidate for the Marblehead Municipal Light Commission
LISTENING: Phish 4.0 (post-lockdown to present). I’m stuck on them.
WATCHING: Finishing “Succession” – it’s like high art, but you’re really meant to hate all of them.
READING: “Awe” by Dacher Keltner (Keltner wrote a column in the NYT that got me). [It is about] how you can experience “awe”… so the book went deep.
SOMETHING PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU OR YOUR CAREER:
Really, my girls are my secret sauce. They disarm me. Larkin, my oldest, is my campaign manager. Pender is a brilliant 7-year-old athlete. And then Avery is a little tiger cub!
WHAT YOU ENJOY ABOUT MARBLEHEAD: It’s a beach town which we lean into! [As Phish singer Trey Anastasio sings,] “The ocean is love” — always there to reset you.