October 27, 2025

Navy Day 2025

Today is the day traditionally set aside for the celebration of the US Navy (although this hasn't been the case since the 1940s for complicated reasons of service politics) and the 8th anniversary of the blog.

It's been another good year, and I continue to be astonished at how a thing that started with an offhand blog comment has continued to run for most of a decade. Highlights for the year were the third Naval Gazing meetup in LA, and my appearance on Patrick McKenzie's Complex Systems podcast. Beyond that, there was the normal business of Naval Gazing and the continued existence of the Discord. And I'm looking forward to next year, particularly the meetup we have scheduled in Dayton on May 14th to 17th. Look for a signup in the next month or two.

As always, I'm grateful to everyone else who has helped with the blog over the last year. John Olsen, Alexander and John Schilling contributed guest posts, while Obormot has kept the blog running for me and Rebecca Friedman handled food for the meetup. And everyone who commented and engaged with my stuff made what I do worth it. And as always, Lord Nelson puts up with me as I work on this.

Thanks to everyone for reading.

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