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Around the time that he reached the unnerving milestone of turning thirty, Leonardo da Vinci wrote a letter to the ruler of Milan listing the reasons he should be given a job. He had been moderately successful as a painter in Florence, but he had trouble first his commissions and was searching for new horizons. In the first ten paragraphs, he touted his engineering skills, including his ability to design bridges, waterways, cannons, armored vehicles, and public buildings. Only in the eleventh paragraph, at the end, did he add that he was also an artist. “Likewise in painting I can do everything possible,” he wrote.

Likewise, I can do everything possible, or at least everything worth attempting with patience, rigor, and a certain reverence for form. Like Leonardo, I do not see disciplines as separate rooms but as adjoining corridors. I often times found philosophy in systems

Also like Leonardo, I am drawn to the connective tissue between them, i.e. the belief that findings and understanding flourish when domains collide. To me, what unites these pursuits is coherence, or the desire to see how patterns echo across arts and how form reappears in sound, image, proof, and code. I’m also intrigued by how a single mind can move among them without asking permission.

I exist in other places on the web. I'm on Stack Exchange network. Especially: Skeptics SE and Islam SE. I also exist on HN and Lobsters, and GitHub @larrasket.

You can learn more about me from this page. You can also have look at my anthology, I usually try to make it reflect my principles as much as possible, or at least my taste in literature.

Because what I suddenly found out is that the moment had come not only to understand that I must no longer transcend, but the instant had come to really no longer transcend. And to have now what I used to think should be for tomorrow (Lispector)

I believe in, and also appreciate, being active, that is is to say, to truly be alive is to be present in the doing, in the small movements and choices that mark each moment. It is not waiting for some grand moment of revelation or perfection, but feeling the pulse of life in the simplest acts, walking, listening, observing, speaking, touching.

I also believe in The Responsibility of Intellectuals and Global Citizenship.