About

“Thoughts sparked by inspiration, conditioned by circumstance and taught by paradox.”

That is what I like to say about my intellectual interests and inclinations and how they’re expressed. But here’s some more about me.

I am interested in a variety of things these days, perhaps with this underlying notion inside myself that I am heading towards an efficient, sustainable, enlightened lifestyle. I am passionate about being passionate – it is as if I need an interest to make my life interesting. It is not without discipline or predictability, however, that I choose interests these days. Like others, I have been conditioned by circumstance (as I have mentioned), and as a result, I find myself searching for gain from my obsessions, which is sometimes not an altogether bad thing to do. Although I like to think that I am heading towards an efficient, sustainable and enlightened lifestyle, sometimes I am befuddled by the nature of reality and how it is, vis-a-vis how it could have been.

Some of my interests are aircraft, technology, science, philosophy, mathematics, music and debate. Of these I am currently big on music, photography and technology, probably owing to the changing nature of my environment and my reactions to these changes. Some of my previous obsessions were aircraft, mathematics (specifically robust optimization algorithms, statistics, mathematical modeling, etc), engineering (specifically structural engineering and finite element analysis), philosophy (specifically logical positivism, existentialism, logic) and a few other obsessions from time to time. Sooner or later, I may develop a new interest. I like to revisit interests, sometimes plagued by the fact that I did not get enough out of them. This is especially with ideas that I hadn’t developed when I was obsessed with them.

By profession I am an engineering consultant who represents his company at client sites and thanks to the nature of my job, I have traveled around quite a bit. Photography, music, work and thinking keep me occupied.